And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
[…] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
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The prerogatives which the Spartans have allowed their kings are the following. In the first place, two priesthoods, those (namely) of Lacedaemonian and of Celestial Jupiter; […] and of having a hundred picked men for their body guard while with the army; likewise the liberty of sacrificing as many cattle in their expeditions as it seems them good, and the right of having the skins and the chines of the slaughtered animals for their own use.1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:
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A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
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Nautical, Transport A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
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The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Etymology From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
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To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
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To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
chine
noun
Etymology From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.
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Southern England, Vancouver A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.1885, Jean Ingelow, A Cottage in a Chine:
In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 169:
Etymology From Middle English chynen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ċīnan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīnan, from Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).