meaning of chine
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.
2. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef. ]
4. The edge or rim of a cask, etc. , formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
5. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
6. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine. .
7. backbone of an animal
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