chine

chinenoun詞源 1/t͡ʃaɪn/

• 1

  The top of a ridge.

• 2

  The spine of an animal.

  • And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
  • […] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]
• 3

  A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

• 4

  The back of the blade on a scythe.

chineverb詞源 1/t͡ʃaɪn/

• 1

  To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

• 2

  To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

chinenoun詞源 2/t͡ʃaɪn/

• 1

  A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.

  • The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.
  • In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.

chineverb詞源 3/t͡ʃaɪn/

• 1

  obsoleteTo crack, split, fissure, break.

  • The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
  • A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.

chinenoun詞源 4/t͡ʃaɪn/

• 1

  The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

• 2

  nauticaltransportA hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.

• 3

  nauticaltransportA sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

• 4

  aeronauticsaerospacebusinessA longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.