Chine
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /t͡ʃaɪn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chine is a noun meaning The top of a ridge.
Meaning
The top of a ridge.
More Meanings
- The spine of an animal.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
- (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
- (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
- (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- The back of the blade on a scythe.
Example Sentences
The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.
A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.
Word Forms
- chines
- chimb
- chime
- chining
- chined
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include crepe, china, colle, crest, clifftop, chimb.
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