chined
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /t͡ʃaɪnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪnd
Adjective
editchined (not comparable)
- Pertaining to, or having, a (particular type of) chine or backbone.
- (obsolete) Broken in the back.
- c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Custome of the Countrey”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 12, column 2:
- Hee's chin'd, he's chin'd, good man, he is a mourner.
References
edit- “chined”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.