Definitions for chines

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chines chine

Spelling: [chahyn]

IPA: /tʃaɪn/

Chines is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in chines (cehins).

Definitions for chines

noun

1. a ravine formed in rock by the action of running water.
2. the backbone or spine, especially of an animal.
3. the whole or a piece of the backbone of an animal with adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
4. a ridge or crest, as of land.
5. Nautical. an angular intersection of the sides and bottom of a vessel. a longitudinal member running behind this.
6. chime2 .

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to a fabric having a variegated pattern produced by warp threads that have been dyed, printed, or painted before weaving.

verb (used with object)

1. (in butchering) to sever the backbone of.

Origin of chines

before 900; Middle English; Old English cinu crevice, fissure; cognate with Middle Dutch kene; compare Old English cīnan to gape, crack open

Examples for chines

A chine or saddle, from two hours and a half, to three hours.

A chine of beef, a manchet, and a chet loaf was a breakfast for the three.

They may come up behind you any moment and cleave you to the chine.'

For the chine and ribs a very light sprinkling of salt will suffice.

Caius went back to the shore to get the boat that lay at the foot of the chine.

If you have a mind to feed there is a chine Of beef, well season'd.

Ive brought it over from the Haven, and its lying anchored at the foot of the chine.

Take care also to cut out the pipe that runs along the chine of a loin of veal, the same as in beef, to hinder it from tainting.

Ristofalo bade him roll the barrel on its chine to the rear and stand it by the hydrant.

Turnips are good, cooked in the same way as potatoes, with the chine.