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Meaning of chine
noun
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
verb
- To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
noun
- (Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
verb
- To crack, split, fissure, break. Example: A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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