chine
nounEtymology
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”).
Definitions
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
- And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
- […] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
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A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or…
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
The back of the blade on a scythe.
To cut through the backbone of
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.
- In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.
To crack, split, fissure, break.
- The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
- A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
- After the erth be brent, chyned & chypped by the hete of the sonne.
The neighborhood
Derived
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA