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Definition of 'chine'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chyne, from (etyl) eschine.
Noun
( wikipedia)
( en-noun)
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
* Dryden
- And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
* 1883:
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A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
(nautical) a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Verb
( chin)
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
( Webster 1913)
Etymology 2
(etyl) , from (etyl) cine, (cinu). The Old English term is cognate to Old Saxon kena, and is related to the Old English verb ("to split open, to sprout").
Noun
( en-noun)
(Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
* J. Ingelow
- The cottage in a chine .
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169
- 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.
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Similar to 'chine'cane, come, came, canoe, chime, cone, chyme, commie, cine, cene, canne, comae, cume, cohune, cyme, coine, cymae, coyne, connie, chamoe
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