Chine
Chine , noun
[Compare Chink.]
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. [Provincial English]
The cottage in a chine.
Chine , noun
[Old French eschine, French échine, from Old High German skina needle, prickle, shin, German schiene splint, schienbein shin. For the meaning compare Latin spina thorn, prickle, or spine, the backbone. Compare Shin.]
1.
The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
[See Illust. of Beef.]
2.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
3.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Chine , transitive verb
1.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
2.
Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.