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chine::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column |
chine::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | cut, cut of meat |
Examples of chine
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After 200 years of erosion and landslides, the chine has almost disappeared.
From the newscientist.com
A better bet were crepe de chine pleated shorts, with a wide, swingy feel.
From the post-gazette.com
For a child of the east Midlands, it was magical, redolent, strange as Australia, mad as a chine.
From the independent.co.uk
These machines include batteries, which keep the ma-chine running in the event of a power failure.
From the usatoday.com
I'm a reading ma-chine, but I'm not big on buying books.
From the timesunion.com
Of etchings alone, there are examples of spitbite, soft ground, hard ground, aquatint and chine colle.
From the sacbee.com
Many instant boats have simple one-piece plywood sides and use external chine logs for simple construction.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Sometimes, it's by going directly to a local winery to buy wine instead of buying from a discount wine chine.
From the kentucky.com
If my mother could hear me hooting my way up the chine it must have meant that she knew me even when I wasn't there.
From the independent.co.uk
- Cut through the backbone of an animal
- Cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
- 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.
- 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. ...
- The top of a ridge; The spine of an animal; a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
- Portion of the hull where the bottom and sides intersect (can be rounded or angled).
- To remove the backbone from a rack of ribs.
- [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. ...
- 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. ...
