Word: chine
Phonetic:
/tʃaɪn/
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The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
The back of the blade on a scythe.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
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