see|Chine
English
Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪn|-aɪn
Noun
wikipedia|Chine (boating)
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chine
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- nautical a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
- (Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
Quotations
;spine
#*1883: w:Robert Louis Stevenson|Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island|Treasure Island
#*: ...the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been interecepted by our big signboard...
;ravine
#*1988, w:Alan Hollinghurst|Alan Hollinghurst, w:The Swimming Pool Library|The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 169
#*: 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.
Translations
trans-top|angle in the hull
Finnish: palle
trans-bottom
Irish
Noun
chine
- mutation of|cine
Italian
Adjective
chine p
- feminine of|chino#Adjective|chino
Noun
chine f
- plural of|china
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