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Definitioner
Substantiv
- The top of a ridge.
- (Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
- 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
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
Verb
- (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
Exempel
- 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 [...]
- The cottage in a chine.
- 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.
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