chine
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tʃaɪn/
chine (plural chines)
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- […] 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.
- (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- (nautical) 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 chamfered end of a stave.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
- Russian: хребе́т
- German: Kimm
chine (chines, present participle chining; past and past participle chined)
- (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
chine (plural chines)
- (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
- The cottage in a chine.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, 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.
chine (chines, present participle chining; past chined, past participle chined)
- (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break. [9th-16th c.]
- 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 and chypped by the hete of the sonne.
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