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chine
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chine
Noun
  • The top of a ridge.
  • The spine of an animal.
  • A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  • A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull. nautical
  • The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Verb
  • To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. transitive
  • To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
Noun
  • A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea. Southern England
Verb
  • To crack, split, fissure, break. [9th-16th c.] obsolete