chine
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chine¹
- /t͡ʃaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.
noun chines · chimb · chime
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal. And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. Between these dishes and the turkeys, stood, on the one side, a prodigious chine of roasted bear's meat, and on the other a boiled leg of delicious mutton. Interspersed among this load of meats, was every species of vegetables that the season and country afforded.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
verb chines · chining · chined · chimb · chime
- To cut through the backbone of (an animal, to prepare it as meat); to cut into chine pieces. the grandmother of sows, gruffly grunting right and left with muzzle which no ring may tame (not being matrimonial), hulks across between the two, moving all each side at once, and then all of the other side as if she were chined down the middle, and afraid of spilling the salt from her
- To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
chine²
- /t͡ʃaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English chyne, chynne (“crack, fissure, chasm”), from Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō.
noun chines
- A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea. Boscombe Chine
chine³
- /t͡ʃaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it 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”).
verb chines · chining · chined
- To crack, split, fissure, break. The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
chine⁴
- /t͡ʃaɪn/
Rhymes with -aɪn
Where it comes from
From Middle English chyne, alteration of Middle English chyme, chymbe, from Old English *ċimb. More at chimb.
noun chines
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave. It had been placed behind some barrels, and what with the rum, what with a long spell of laziness, Willy was unable to shift them. Joe came to his assistance, canted the casks, and rolled them away upon their chines.
- 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.
Translations
Talk about this word "chine." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chine. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. chine. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/chine "chine." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/chine.Cite this
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title = {chine},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chine},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
