Chine vs Rhine - What's the difference?
chine | rhine |
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
* Dryden
* 1883:
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
(nautical) a sharp angle in the cross section of a hull
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.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.
(Webster 1913)
(Southern England) a steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
* J. Ingelow
* 1988, , Penguin Books (1988), page 169
A river that flows through Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, Germany, France and the Netherlands.
As a verb chine
is .As a noun rhine is
(uk|dialect) a watercourse; a ditch for water.chine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) chyne, from (etyl) eschine.Noun
(wikipedia chine) (en noun)- And chine with rising bristles roughly spread.
Verb
(chin)Etymology 2
(etyl) , from (etyl) cine, (cinu). The Old English term is cognate to Old Saxon kena, and is related to the Old English verb ("to split open, to sprout").Noun
(en noun)- The cottage in a chine .
- In the odorous stillness of the day I thought of the tracks that threaded Egdon Heath, and of benign, elderly Sandbourne, with its chines and sheltered beach-huts.
