chine

chine is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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. noun. The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
3. noun. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
4. noun. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
5. transitive verb. To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
6. transitive verb. Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
7. noun. backbone of an animal
8. noun. cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
9. verb. cut through the backbone of an animal

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in chine:

chien, niche

Common word forms

chined, chines, chining

Words from these letters

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