1. rhine - Noun
2. Rhine - Proper noun
A water course; a ditch.
Source: Webster's dictionary19th century On 9 February 1801, the Peace of Lunéville removed the ownership of Aachen and the entire "left bank" of the Rhine from Germany and granted it to France. Source: Internet
About 11000 yr ago, the Rhine estuary was in the Strait of Dover. Source: Internet
AD 90 – c. AD 168), in a fairly extensive account of Greater Germany, citation makes several unusual mentions of Suebi between the Rhine and the Elbe. Source: Internet
Act 3 "The Rhinemaidens warn Siegfried", by Arthur Rackham (1912) In the woods by the bank of the Rhine, the Rhinemaidens mourn the lost Rhine gold. Source: Internet
A curiosity of this border line is that the parts of the city of Mainz on the right bank of the Rhine were given to Hesse by the occupying forces in 1945. Source: Internet
After the allied French had to retreat after defeats to the Rhine, he lost Bavaria again. Source: Internet