noun
Meaning 1
The top of a ridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
chine
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/t͡ʃaɪn/
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rhymes with -aɪn
noun
Meaning 2
The spine of an animal.
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noun
Meaning 3
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
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noun
Meaning 4
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 5
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 7
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
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noun
Meaning 8
The back of the blade on a scythe.
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noun
Meaning 9
A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-England, Vancouver
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verb
Meaning 10
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 12
To crack, split, fissure, break.
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Usage: obsolete
Examples
- The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
- A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
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noun
Meaning 13
backbone of an animal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis
noun
Meaning 14
cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cut, cut of meat
verb
Meaning 15
cut through the backbone of an animal
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: butcher, slaughter
History
Etymology
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”).
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: било (bilo) — top of a ridge
- Bulgarian: хребет (hrebet) — top of a ridge
- Czech: hřbet — top of a ridge
- Finnish: harja — top of a ridge
- Finnish: harjanne — top of a ridge
- Hungarian: gerinc — top of a ridge
- Russian: хребе́т (xrebét) — top of a ridge
- Swedish: krön — top of a ridge
- Bulgarian: гръбнак (grǎbnak) — spine of an animal
- Finnish: selkäranka — spine of an animal
- Finnish: ruoto — spine of an animal
- Hungarian: gerinc — spine of an animal
- Finnish: pallekulma — angle in the hull
- German: Kimm — angle in the hull
- Hungarian: gerinc — angle in the hull
- Polish: obło — angle in the hull
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