belly vs chine

belly

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

chine

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. 

  • To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine. 

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