chine¹ /chīn/

1. A piece of the backbone and adjoining parts of an animal (esp of a pig) for cooking
2. The spine or backbone (archaic)
3. Anything resembling a backbone
4. The crest of a ridge
5. The extreme outside longitudinal member of the planing bottom of a flying-boat hull or a seaplane float, running parallel with the hull (aeronautics)

To break the back of

chine² /chīn/

A ravine

chiné /shē-nāˈ/

(of fabric) mottled, with the pattern printed on the warp

chime² or chimb /chīm/

1. (also chine) the rim formed by the ends of the staves of a cask
2. A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck (nautical)

• sea beet
• sea beets
• sea belt
• sea belts
• sea-berry
• seabird
• seabirds
• sea biscuit
• sea biscuits
• seablite
• seablites
• sea blubber
• sea blubbers
• sea-blue
• seaboard
• seaboards
• sea boat
• sea boats
• sea boots
• seaborgium
• sea-born
• seaborne
• seabottle
• seabottles
• sea bottom