chine

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. .

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 longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
 * 6)  A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
 * 7) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
 * 8) The back of the blade on a scythe.
 * 1)  A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
 * 2) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
 * 3) The back of the blade on a scythe.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: гръбнак
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:


 * Finnish: palle
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:

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.

Etymology 2
From, , from , , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.

Etymology 3
From, from , from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To crack, split, fissure, break.