chyne

From Old English ċine, ċinu, from Proto-West Germanic *kinu, from Proto-Germanic *kinō. Forms with /iː/ are influenced by chynen.

• chene, cheyne, chine, chyn, chynne

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃeːn(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃiːn(ə)/

chyne (plural chynes)

1. crack (point of breakage)
2. fissure, chasm
3. (pathology) opening (of an injury or wound)

• English: chine (chink)
• Scots: chin, chun

• “chine, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French eschine, from Frankish *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Doublet of schyne (“shin”).

• chine, chynne

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːn(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃin(ə)/

chyne (plural chynes)

1. The spine; the backbone.
2. (by extension) The back.
3. Meat cut from an animal's back.

• English: chine

• “chīne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

chyne

1. (Northern) alternative form of cheyne

chyne

1. (Northern) alternative form of cheynen

chyne

1. alternative form of chynen