A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.
The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. "And chine with rising bristles roughly spread." Dryden.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
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