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Chine
Definitions
- 1 The top of a ridge.
- 2 A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea. Southern-England, Vancouver
"The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it."
- 3 backbone of an animal wordnet
- 4 The spine of an animal.
"And chine with rising bristles roughly spread."
- 5 cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone wordnet
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- 6 A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- 7 A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- 8 A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
- 9 A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- 10 The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- 11 The back of the blade on a scythe.
- 1 To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. transitive
- 2 To crack, split, fissure, break. obsolete
"The wayward son did chine his father's heart."
- 3 cut through the backbone of an animal wordnet
- 4 To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
Etymology
From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.
From Middle English chynen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ċīnan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīnan, from Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).
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