[a variant of CHIME2, prob. altered by phonetic attraction to prec.]
1. The projecting rim at the heads of casks, etc., formed by the ends of the staves; = CHIME sb.2
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, in Babees Bk., 121. When þow settyst a pipe abroche … iiij fyngur ouer þe nere chyne þow may percer or bore … and so shalle ye not cawse þe lies vp to ryse.
1601. Househ. Ord., 295. The yeoman drawer hath for his fee all the lees of wine within fowre fingers of the chine.
1713. Lond. & Country Brewer, IV. (1743), 312. Ornamenting the very Chines of his Cask by a moulding Instrument.
1883. American, VI. 206/2. The old and mouldy casks had rotted away at their chines.
2. Ship-building. (See quot. 1850.)
1833. T. Richardson, Merc. Mar. Archit., 5. The rabbet … is always the same distance from … the chine, as the thickness of the plank intended to be worked on the bottom.
c. 1850. Rudim. Navig. (Weale), 106. Chine, that part of the waterways which is left the thickest, and above the deck-plank. It is bearded back, that the lower seam of spirketing may be more conveniently caulked, and is gouged hollow in front to form a watercourse.
3. Comb., as chine-hoop (of a cask).
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Chine-hoop, the extreme hoop which keeps the ends of the staves together.
Chine, obs. f. CHAIN.
