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‖ tinaja|tiˈnaxa|
Formerly Anglicized, as 6 ˈtinage, ˈtynage, 7 ˈtynaxe; also in Sp. forms 6 tiˈnaio (i.e. tinajo), 7 tiˈnaxa.
[a. Sp. tinaja, † tinaxa = It. tinaccio, augmentatives of tina and tino, L. tīna wine-vessel.]
1. In Spain: a large earthenware jar used to hold wine, oil, olives, or salted fish or meat; in parts of Spanish America, such a jar used for storing water.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1584) 241 His souldiers..haue drunke out a whole tinage of wine. 1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. xlix. 106 Sixe great Tynages of fine Earth, which they doe call Porcelanas. 1598W. Phillip Linschoten i. vi. 16/2 The water that they drinke..they keepe in great pots (as the Tinaios in Spaine). 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea xii. 25 The Inhabitants doe reserue water..in their Cisterns and Tynaxes. 1676Lady A. Fanshawe Mem. (1830) 195 That admirable wine is kept in great tinajas, which are pots holding about 500 gallons each. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 231/1 At Coria are made the enormous earthenware jars in which oil and olives are kept: these tinajas are the precise amphoræ of the ancients. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 629/1 The earliest kinds now existing of Spanish pottery without either enamel or glaze are chiefly large wine-jars, ‘tinajas’, about 3 or 4 feet high, of graceful amphora-like shape, stamped with simple patterns in relief. 1924Gorgas & Hendrick William Crawford Gorgas v. 179 An assault on the water barrels, cisterns, tinajas, and dish pans of the cities of Colon and Panama involved greater difficulties. 1949Jrnl. N.Y. Bot. Garden Mar. 59 The women look like animated tea cozies..loaded down..with tinajas (jars) or rolls of mats made of reeds. 1971L. Boger Dict. World Pott. & Porc. 343/1 Tinajas were produced in all parts of Moslem Spain with..little variety in design.
2. South-western U.S. A rock hollow where water is retained; hence, any temporary or intermittent pool.
1835T. Coulter Notes on Upper California 65 The only water to be had is found..in excavations called Tinajas, made by the Indians. 1857A. Schott Obs. on Country along Mexican Boundary 69 Permanent water is found under a cleft of igneous rocks, and does not properly deserve the name of a spring, but is rather a tinaja supplied by water trickling through the rocks from water⁓holes above. 1896Science 3 Apr. 494/1 Knowledge of the few widely separated tinajas and springs was bought at the price of many lives. 1958‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs v. 55 The wells were pothole water tanks, rock tinajas. |