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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪn/

Definition 1:
• The top of a ridge.

Definition 2:
• A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
Example: Boscombe Chine
Example: Shanklin Chine
Labels: Southern-England, Vancouver

Definition 3:
• The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

Definition 4:
• The spine of an animal.

Definition 5:
• A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
Labels: nautical, transport

Definition 6:
• A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

Definition 7:
• A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
Labels: nautical, transport

Definition 8:
• The back of the blade on a scythe.

Definition 9:
• A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
Labels: aeronautics, aerospace, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Verb
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃaɪn/

Definition 1:
• To cut through the backbone of (an animal, to prepare it as meat); to cut into chine pieces.
Labels: transitive

Definition 2:
• To crack, split, fissure, break.
Example: The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
Example: A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
Labels: obsolete

Definition 3:
• To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
Labels: transitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chine