chine.
The top of a ridge.
Meaning & usage
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.
The back of the blade on a scythe.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.
To crack, split, fissure, break.
The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chynen (“to crack, fissure, split”), from Old English ċīnan (“to break into pieces, burst, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīnan, from Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split; crack; germinate; sprout”).
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English chyne, alteration of Middle English chyme, chymbe, from Old English *ċimb. More at chimb.
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