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Rarechine
The correct spelling is chine.
How to pronounce chine
/tʃaɪn/
nounIPA: /tʃaɪn/
Say it like: Chi-ne
The correct spelling is chine. The top of a ridge. For example: "A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny."
Usage Examples
“A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The top of a ridge.
- 2.The spine of an animal.
- 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 hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
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.
- 3.To crack, split, fissure, break.
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