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chine

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5 lettersPronunciation /t͡ʃaɪn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted cehinStarts with CEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cut through the backbone of an animal

Word origin

From Middle English chyne, from Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of shin.

Used in a sentence

  • And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
  • […] the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard […]
  • The cottage in a chine, we were not to behold it.

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