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1. Cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
    
2. Backbone of an animal
    
3. A sharp angle in the cross section of a boat's hull
    
4. The top of a mountain ridge
    
5. [UK] (English south coast) a steep-sided ravine leading down to the sea

1. Cut through the backbone of an animal

Derived forms: chines, chined, chining

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

Encyclopedia: Chine