Sekirov Dictionary

chine

/t͡ʃaɪn/

noun9

  1. The spine of an animal.
  2. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  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.
  5. A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
  6. The top of a ridge.
  7. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  8. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
  9. The back of the blade on a scythe.

verb3

  1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  2. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
  3. (no longer used) To crack, split, fissure, break.

chiné adjective1

  1. Mottled in appearance, from the warp being dyed in different colours, or from threads of different colours twisted together.
forms

chined · chining · chines

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