Uttal

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Liknande ord

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. The top of a ridge.
  2. (Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
  3. The spine of an animal.
  4. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
  5. (nautical) a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
  6. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
  2. 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.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipchined
Imperfektchined
Presensparticipchining
Pluralchines
Tredje person singular indicativ presenschines

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