chine

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The boar, when selected as the parent of a stock, should have a small head, be deep and broad in the chest; the chine should be arched, the ribs and barrel well rounded, with the haunches falling full down nearly to the hock; and he should always be more compact and smaller than the female.

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  1. noun The backbone or spine, especially of an animal.
  2. noun A cut of meat containing part of the backbone.
  3. noun A ridge or crest.
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  1. Middle English, from Old French eschine, of Germanic origin; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English chinen, chynen (preterit chon), from Anglo-Saxon *cīnan, in comp. tō-cīnan (tō-, English to-, apart), split, crack, chink, = Old Saxon kīnan = Middle Dutch, Dutch kenen, split, germinate, sprout, dawn, = Old High German kīnan, chīnen, Middle High German kīnen, split, germinate, sprout, = Gothic (Moesogothic) keinan, germinate, sprout, in comp. us-keinan, sprout, grow; with present-formative -n, from the Teutonic ✓ *ki, in Gothic (Moesogothic) *kijan, present participle kijans, in comp. us-kijan, sprout, grow, whence also ult. Old Saxon kīmo = Old High German chīmo, Middle High German kīme, German keim, a sprout, shoot, bud, germ (later G. keimen, sprout, germinate), and Old High German *chīdi, *kīdi (in comp. frumikīdi), Middle High German kīde, G. dial, keid = Old Saxon kīth = Anglo-Saxon cīth, English chit, a sprout, shoot: see chit; perhaps ult. connected with the root of kin, kind, etc.: see kin, kind, ken.
  2. from Middle English chine, chyne, chene, from Anglo-Saxon cinu, also cine (not *cīne), = Middle Dutch kene, Dutch keen, a chink, rift, crack, D. also a germ; from the verb: see chine, v.
  3. from Middle English chine, chyne, from Old French eschine, French échine, the spine, = Provencal esquina, esquena = Spanish esquena = Italian schiena, the chine, backbone, from Old High German skinā, Middle High German schine, the shinbone, a needle, a prickle, German schiene, shin, shinbone, splint, = Anglo-Saxon scina, English shin, q. v.
  4. from chine, n.
  5. A corruption of chimb = chime, by confusion with chine or chine.
 

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