chine

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1. chine - Noun

2. chine - Verb

Meaning

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.

The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]

The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.

Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..

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All boats suffered from some sort of structural failure (forward chine guards ripped away, bottom framing under bows broken, side planking cracked (indicating lack of longitudinal strength), and other weaknesses). Source: Internet

ELINT-gathering systems, called the Electro Magnetic Reconnaissance System (EMR), built by AIL could be carried in the chine bays to analyse electronic signal fields being passed through, and were pre-programmed to identify items of interest. Source: Internet

In an important note after winning the design competition for the smaller PT boat, George Crouch wrote that Hickman's Sea Sled design would be far superior "in either rough or smooth water to that of the best possible V-bottom or hard chine design". Source: Internet

Mass-produced chine powerboats are usually made of sprayed chop strand fibreglass over a wooden mold. Source: Internet

So when a Chine Hammer mill breaks down in rural Solwezi where do they get the spare part? Source: Internet

Sometimes called hard chine. Source: Internet

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