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Chined   Listen
adjective
Chined  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or having, a chine, or backbone; used in composition.
2.
Broken in the back. (Obs.) "He's chined, goodman."





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"Chined" Quotes from Famous Books



... throne of Philip with my fires, And send it shrieking down to burn in hell For ever. Go!" Then Drake turned once again, To face the Spanish prisoners. With a voice Cold as the passionless utterance of Fate His grim command went forth. "Now, provost-marshal, Begin with yon two friars, in whose faces Chined like singed swine, and eyed with the spent coals Of filthy living, sweats the glory of Spain. Strip off their leprous rags And twist their ropes around their throats and hang them High over the Spanish camp for all to see. At dawn I'll ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... rather lend that than their coach, and who only impart themselves that way. You are to examine whether your company pleases them upon any other account, or, as some strong-chined groom, for that only; in what degree of favour and esteem you ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne


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