chine
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Is chine a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
2. (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
3. (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.transitive
noun (English)
1. (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.Examples: "The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it."; "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."Southern-EnglandVancouver
verb (English)
1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.Examples: "The wayward son did chine his father's heart."; "A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny."; "After the erth be brent, chyned & chypped by the hete of the sonne."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary