- The backbone - 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. - The backbone or spine of an animal; the back. - A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining
parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.] - The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting
ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave. - To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. - Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..