Usually means: Ridge or crest of hill.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. chine: Merriam-Webster
  2. chine, chine, chine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chine, chine: Wordnik
  7. chine: Wiktionary
  8. chine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. chine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. chine: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Chine, chine: Dictionary.com
  12. Chine (aeronautics), Chine (aircraft), Chine (boating), Chine (disambiguation), Chine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Chine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. chine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. chine: Rhymezone
  16. Chine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. chine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. chine: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chine: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. chine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. chine: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chine: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chine: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHINE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (chine)

noun:  The top of a ridge.
noun:  The spine of an animal.
noun:  A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
noun:  (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
noun:  (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
noun:  (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
noun:  The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
noun:  The back of the blade on a scythe.
verb:  (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
verb:  To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
noun:  (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
verb:  (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.

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