noun
- Plural of bine; the climbing or twining stems of hops or other plants.
Usage: Commonly used in agriculture and brewing contexts.
Examples
- The farmer trained the hop bines up the tall trellises in the field.
- Bines of hops can grow several feet in a single season.
- The brewery sources its hops from bines grown in the Pacific Northwest.
- During harvest, workers carefully cut down the mature bines.
- The bines twined around the support wires as they grew taller.