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The top of a ridge.

The spine of an animal.

A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.

A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

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

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

(Southern England) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.

To crack, split, fissure, break.

Example: A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny.