- Flat projection on a tool - Projecting flat rim - Projecting rim - An external or internal rib, or rim, for strength, as the
flange of an iron beam; or for a guide, as the flange of a car wheel
(see Car wheel.); or for attachment to another object, as the flange on
the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc. - A plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when
fastened to the pipe. - To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange. - To be bent into a flange.
- 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..