chines

Updated: June 25, 2025

We then struck the roughest of descents, down broken outcrops and chines of granite no wonder that the women have such grand legs. This led us into a dark green depression where lay Banza Chinsavu, the abode of King Nelongo. Our course had been three miles to the north-north-east.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

Westward from its mouth extends a line of sandy cliffs, broken by occasional ravines or chines, past Bournemouth to Poole Harbor, a broad estuary surrounded by low hills which is protected by a high ridge of chalk rocks on its south-western side running out into the sea. The sleepy town of Poole stands on the shore, having dim recollections of its ships and commerce of centuries ago.

Joel Cook - England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel

While offenders, who, compared with him, were innocent, grew lean on the prison allowance, his cheer was mended by turkeys and chines, capons and sucking pigs, venison pasties and hampers of claret, the offerings of zealous Protestants, When James had fled from Whitehall, and when London was in confusion, it was moved, in the council of Lords which had provisionally assumed the direction of affairs, that Gates should be set at liberty.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

Run through the hock of hams, the upper tip of shoulders, the thickest part of sides, the pointed tip of jowls. Jowls may not need to lie so long as bigger pieces, especially if part of their fat has gone to lard. Chines can be hung up in three weeks, and cured with a very light smoking, along with the bags of sausage. Hang hams highest, shoulders next, then sides, jowls, etc.

Martha McCulloch-Williams - Dishes & Beverages of the Old South

The best fat to chop in with sausage is taken from the chines or back bones.

Elizabeth E. (Elizabeth Ellicott) Lea - Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

There is sport in killing my owne partridge and pheasant; my Trowtes will cost me less than your Lobsters and crayfish drest with amber greece , and I may renew my acquaintance with mutton and bold chines of beefe; entertaine my tenants, that would pay for my housekeeping all the yeere and thanke my worship at Christmas, over and above their rents, with Turkies and Beeves of supererogation. Lady.

Various - A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2