chine2 (chin)

t.; pret. and pp. chined, ppr. chining. [ Chine or slit him [the chub] through the middle. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 67. chine3 (chin), n. [A corruption of chimb2 = chime2, by confusion with chinel or chine2 .] 1. An erroneous form for chime (of a cask). The old and mouldy casks had rotted away at their chines. The American , VI. 206. 2. A part of a ship. See chime2, 2. chiné (shē-nā'), a. [F., prop. pp. of chiner, color, dye, orig. in Chinese fashion, duced by the breaking of minute particles of color into one another.