chine

The top of a ridge.

The spine of an animal.

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 hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.

The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

The back of the blade on a scythe.

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

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

(Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.

To crack, split, fissure, break.

“A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.”