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Noun: chine  shee'ney
  1. Cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
     
  2. Backbone of an animal
Verb: chine  shee'ney
  1. Cut through the backbone of an animal

Derived forms: chines, chining, chined

Type of: back, backbone, butcher, cut, cut of meat, rachis, slaughter, spinal column, spine, vertebral column

Encyclopedia: Chine