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plural bines
(botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers). quotations examples
The tangled bine-stems scored the skyLike strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.
1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush
(UK, slang) A cigarette.