A feather or plume, or feather-shaped item, used as an adornment or ornament.
The lesser white heron.
The feathery crown of some seeds (such as the dandelion).
The back of the blade on a scythe.
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
The top of a ridge.
The spine of an animal.
A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.