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chine
/t͡ʃaɪn/
noun 6verb 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
broad
CHINE + NOUN
bristles, father's, heart, lambs
PREP.
in, with
ADV.
bristly
Definitions
noun
1
The top of a ridge.
2
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 […]
3
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
verb
1
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
2
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
noun
1
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.
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And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
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[…] 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 […]
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The prerogatives which the Spartans have allowed their kings are the following. In the first place, two priesthoods, those (namely) of Lacedaemonian and of Celestial Jupiter; […] and of having a hundr
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The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.
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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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The wayward son did chine his father's heart.
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