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chine
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tags: [anatomy] [food]
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Definition:an animal's spine, either as part of the anatomy or as a food item.
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the captain aimed at the fugitive one last tremendous cut, which would certainly have split him to the chine had it not been intercepted by our big signboard
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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The consequence of this was an excellent cold chine being produced upon the table, upon which not only Partridge, but Jones himself, made a very hearty breakfast,
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749)
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the spit passed athwart the pericardium or capsule of his heart, and came out above at his shoulders, betwixt the spondyls or turning joints of the chine of the back and the left homoplat, which we call the shoulder-blade.
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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