chine
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- Rhymes: -aɪn
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قالب:wikipedia قالب:wikipedia chine
- The top of a ridge.
- The spine of an animal.
- قالب:nautical a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
- (Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
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- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- ...the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been interecepted by our big signboard...
- 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
- ravine
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- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 169
- In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 169