(1):
(n.) The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
(2):
(n.) A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
(3):
(n.) The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
(4):
(v. t.) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
(5):
(v. t.) Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
(6):
(n.) 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.