chine

The top of a ridge.

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 […]

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

A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

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

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

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

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.