chine /ˈʧaɪn/
 脊骨,脊椎,山脊(vt.)沿…脊骨切開


 Chine 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. [Prov. Eng.] “The cottage in a chine.”


 Chine n.
 1. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. “And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.”
 2. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
 Note: [See Illust. of Beef.]
 3. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.


 Chine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chined ]
 1. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
 2. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

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 chine
      n 1: cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
      2: backbone of an animal
      v : cut through the backbone of an animal