chine vs scissor

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. 

scissor

noun
  • One blade on a pair of scissors. 

  • Scissors. 

  • Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick, scissor hold (wrestling), scissor jack. 

verb
  • To cut using, or as if using, scissors. 

  • To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other. 

  • To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other. 

  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs. 

  • To excise or expunge something from a text. 

How often have the words chine and scissor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )