Word Direct Answers

What does "chine" mean?

Chine: The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. Note: [See Illust. of Beef.]
  2. 3.The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
  3. 4.To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  4. 5.Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

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