chine

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Synonyms: chide, whine, chink, chime, shine, ching, cline, thine, chin, china, chile

Antonyms: chide, whine, chink, chime, shine, ching, cline, thine, chin, china, chile

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Noun

1. The top of a ridge.
2. The spine of an animal.
3. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4. The 'back' or 'top' of the blade on a scythe, opposite the cutting edge.

Verb

1. To cut through the backbone of (an animal, to prepare it as meat); to cut into chine pieces.
2. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

Noun

1. A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
   • Boscombe Chine
   • Shanklin Chine

Verb

1. To crack, split, fissure, break. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
   • The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
   • A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.

Noun

1. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
2. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
3. A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
4. A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.

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