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Definitions of chine
n. - 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. ²
n. - The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. ²
n. - A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.] ²
n. - The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave. ²
v. t. - To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. ²
v. t. - Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.. ²

The word "chine" uses 5 letters: C E H I N.

Direct anagrams of chine:
  niche

Words formed by adding one letter before or after chine (in bold), or to cehin in any order:
a -   chaine   d -   chined   inched   niched   g -   eching   i -   echini   l -   lichen   r -   enrich   richen   s -   chines   inches   niches   t -   ethnic   y -   hyenic   z -   zechin  

Shorter words found within chine:
chi   chin   cine   eh   en   he   hen   hi   hic   hie   hin   ice   ich   in   inch   ne   nice  

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