The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The stomach.
The abdomen, especially a fat one.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The womb.
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
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.