Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Large Glossary of L&M Companion
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The so called “chine bone” of a cow, as understood by a modern butcher, is the backbone in general, or the large half-round section of bone at the edge of a T-bone steak. Even more specifically “chine bone” is used to refer to excess backbone, which can be rather large and is usually trimmed from a loin.
If a chine of beef is a cut of meat containing part of the backbone, as above, then it is a very good cut for a roast, containing at least part of the short-loin, and possibly part of the tenderloin.
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Oh, it may, as Pauline points out, also be a rib roast, a standing rib roast, or possibly even a saddle of rib (which would be a very large roast indeed). Again, these are all very good cuts.
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Chiner [F] it not be but No 3. be a good choice for the readers : chine - 2 versions of verb and 3 nouns from ye olde English Dictionary:{OED}
Alfred King dothe use the word in 888: to decipher the written word “lyle cynan”, one dothe need an ear for sound and a nose for smelling burnt offerings.
1. An open fissure or crack in a surface; a cleft, crack, chink, leak. Obs.
b. spec. A fissure or crack in the skin; a chap.
c. A cut, an incision. Obs.
A fissure in the surface of the earth; a crevice, chasm. Obs.
1. The spine, backbone, or vertebral column; more loosely ‘the part of the back in which the spine is found’ (J.). arch. and techn.
2. The back. Obs.
1611 COTGR., Eschinon, the chyne, or vpper part of the backe betweene the shoulders
3. Cookery. A ‘joint’ consisting of the whole or part of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining flesh. The application varies much according to the animal; in mutton it is the ‘saddle’; in beef any part of the back (ribs or sirloin).
1592 Nobody & Someb. (1878) 289 Yeomen..Whose long backs bend with weightie chynes of biefe.
b. spec. The backbone and immediately adjoining flesh of a bacon-pig, which remains when the sides are cut off for bacon-curing.
The ship building connection appears to be from 1850 even tho a ship be ribbed; the sternam or keel be the connection;
then there be a French connection Fr., pa. pple. of chiner, f. Chine China.] [Modern French -chiner, rag,kid]
A. adj. Of silk: dyed or woven with a mottled or indistinct pattern after an actual or supposed Chinese fashion. B. n. Chiné fabric. and then le blanc de Chine, white porcelin from China.Verb:
1. trans. To cut along or across the chine or backbone; to cut the chine-piece.
b. spec. To cut up (a salmon or other fish).
1653 WALTON Angler iii, Chine or slit him through the middle, as a salt fish is usually cut
2. To break the chine or back of. (? Also, To cleave to the chine.)
1677 OTWAY Cheats Scapin II. i. 79 By all the Honour of my ancestors I’ll chine the villain [Fr. je le veux échiner].
. Broken-backed. Obs. rare.
1611 COTGR., Eschiné..chyned, broken- -
Also worth noting is the etymology of “chine”.
ENTRY: skei-
DEFINITION: To cut, split. Extension of sek-.
Derivatives include science, nice, shit, schism, sheath, ski, and esquire.