What is the meaning of Chine?

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.

The back of the blade on a scythe.

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

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

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

To crack, split, fissure, break.

The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.

A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.

A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.

A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.

inflection of chiner:

1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
2. second-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

second-person singular imperative

lenited form of cine

feminine plural of chino

plural of china

alternative form of chyne (“crack”)

alternative form of chyne (“spine”)

alternative form of chynen

masculine plural of chino

inflection of chinar:

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org