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Verb
/CHīn/,
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chines, plural;
  1. Cut (meat) across or along the backbone

Noun
  1. The angle where the bottom of a boat or ship meets the side

  1. (chine) cut through the backbone of an animal
  2. (chine) cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
  3. A chine is a steep-sided river valley where the river flows through coastal cliffs to the sea. Typically these are soft eroding cliffs such as sandstone or clays. The word chine originates from the Saxon "Cinan" meaning a gap or yawn.
  4. (Chine (boating)) A chine in boating refers to a sharp angle in the hull, as compared to the rounded bottoms of most traditional boat hulls. The term hard chine indicates an angle with little rounding, where a soft chine would be more rounded, but still involve the meeting of distinct planes. ...
  5. (chine) The top of a ridge; The spine of an animal; a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
  6. (Chine) The edge of the kayak; transition area between the bottom of the boat and the side of the boat.
  7. (Chine) The location where the deck joins the hull of the boat.
  8. (Chine) To remove the backbone from a rack of ribs.
  9. (CHINE) The line where the sides and bottom of a flat or v-bottomed boat intersect
  10. (Chine) The line where two panels meet. Typically running from bow to stern. A hard-chine refers to a boat with a distinct line between the bottom and sides of the boat. Multi-chine refers to a hull with one or more chines between the bottom chine and the sheer.
  11. (CHINE) watered appearance in fabric created by dying warp threads before weaving.
  12. (Chine) A deliverer; a man of China, cotemporaneous with Moses and Capilya. He was to China a great deliverer. He was an iesu by birth, and wrought miracles. The country, China, was named by him after himself. ...
  13. (Chine) Abrupt change in the transverse shape where a vessel's side and bottom come together
  14. (Chine) An angle in the hull. Multi-chine boats have a series of flat planes making the curve of the hull.
  15. (Chine) Any corner instead of a curve in the cross section view of the canoe or kayak
  16. (Chine) The section of the lower backbone interlocking the ribs and the membrane, which should be removed for boning or carving of meats.
  17. (Chine) The transition where two relatively flat sections of hull meet (usually where the vertical side hull meets the horizontal bottom hull).  Less defined edges (but still present) on the hull are often described as soft-chine. ...
  18. (Chine) Variegated, speckled or figured glass.  GANTAD
  19. (Chine) [Knick, der] The line of intersection between two longitudinal sections of the hull. Folding boats inevitably are chine boats since the hull material stretches from stringer to stringer in a straight line. ...
  20. (Chine) the corner between the sides and bottom panels on a 'hard chine' hull, usually a power boat or plywood dinghy. As opposed to round bilge hull.
  21. (Chine) the inclined side of hull or sponson; also "non-trip."
  22. (Chiné) Textiles with a mottled pattern.
  23. (Chiné) The French name for Mudmee.
  24. a chine is a hard or soft edge between 2 surfaces on a boat that run down the length of the hull. One can have one, two, or three chines depending on the construction. Chines origininated because of construction limitations rather than performance. ...
  25. (Chinery) Michael (1991): Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe (2nd edition).