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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Chine

· IPA /t͡ʃaɪn/
01 n. A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
  1. 1.
    A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.[Prov. Eng.]
02 n. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
  1. 1.
    The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
  2. 2.
    A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.] See: Beef
  3. 3.
    The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
03 v. t. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
imp. & p. p. Chined
  1. 1.
    To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  2. 2.
    Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..