Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chine

2 senses of chine

Sense 1
chine -- (cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone)
       => cut, cut of meat -- (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

Sense 2
chine -- (backbone of an animal)
       => spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis -- (the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb chine

1 sense of chine

Sense 1
chine -- (cut through the backbone of an animal)
       => butcher, slaughter -- (kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter")