CHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chine mean? 

• CHINE (noun)
  The noun CHINE has 2 senses:

1. cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

2. backbone of an animal

  Familiarity information: CHINE used as a noun is rare.

• CHINE (verb)
  The verb CHINE has 1 sense:

1. cut through the backbone of an animal

  Familiarity information: CHINE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("chine" is a kind of...):

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

Derivation:

chine (cut through the backbone of an animal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Backbone of an animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("chine" is a kind of...):

back; backbone; rachis; spinal column; spine; vertebral column (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord)

Derivation:

chine (cut through the backbone of an animal)

• CHINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they chine    ... he / she / it chines   
Past simple: chined   
Past participle: chined   
-ing form: chining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut through the backbone of an animal

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "chine" is one way to...):

butcher; slaughter (kill (animals) usually for food consumption)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

chine (backbone of an animal)

chine (cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone)

 Context examples 

Just at the door the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard of Admiral Benbow.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)