chine
noun
[ tʃʌɪn ]
• the backbone of an animal as it appears in a joint of meat.
• a mountain ridge.
chine
verb
• cut (meat) across or along the backbone.
• "he learned how to chine a whole sheep"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French eschine, based on a blend of Latin spina ‘spine’ and a Germanic word meaning ‘narrow piece’, related to shin.
chine
noun
• (in the Isle of Wight or Dorset) a deep narrow ravine.
Origin:
Old English cinu ‘cleft, chink’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch keen, also to chink1.
chine
noun
• the angle where the strakes of the bottom of a boat or ship meet the side.
Origin:
late Middle English: variant of chime2 (the original sense).
