noun. undefined

noun. The backbone or spine, especially of an animal.

noun. A cut of meat containing part of the backbone.

noun. A ridge or crest.

noun. The line of intersection between the side and bottom of a flatbottom or V-bottom boat.

transitive verb. To cut (a carcass, for example) through the spine, as when butchering.

To split open; crack; chink; chap.

To split; crack; burst; lay open.

noun. A crack; chink; rift; cleft; crevice; fissure.

noun. A ravine or large fissure in a cliff: a term especially common in the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, England: as, Black-gang chine.

noun. The backbone or spine: now commonly used only of an animal.

noun. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

noun. Figuratively, a ridge of land.

To cut through the backbone or into chine-pieces.

noun. An erroneous form for chime (of a cask).

noun. A part of a ship. See chime, 2.

Literally, colored in Chinese fashion: applied to fabrics in which the warp is dyed in different colors, so that a mottled effect is produced, or in which a double thread, formed of two smaller threads of different colors twisted together, is used to produce a similar mottled or speckled appearance.

noun. A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine.

noun. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.

noun. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]

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

transitive verb. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

transitive verb. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

noun. The top of a ridge.

noun. The spine of an animal.

noun. a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull

verb. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

verb. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

noun. a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea

noun. backbone of an animal

noun. cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

verb. cut through the backbone of an animal

"The two loins together are called the chine or saddle."

mourning of the chine  to mose in the chine  

chined  

back  backbone  butcher  cut  cut of meat  

astate  backsword  brisket  bub  capon  

bilge  blain  bleb  blister  blob  

beef  

chined  chines  chining