Definitions from Wiktionary (chine)

▸ noun:  The top of a ridge.
▸ noun:  The spine of an animal.
▸ noun:  A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
▸ noun:  (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
▸ noun:  The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
▸ noun:  The back of the blade on a scythe.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
▸ verb:  To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
▸ noun:  (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
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