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Shippards Chine, on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, a few miles from Yarmouth. A ‘chine’ (to rhyme with ‘dine’) can be a mountain ridge, or in butcher’s parlance, the spine of an animal such as a sheep, reflecting Old French ‘eschine’; but especially in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, it means the opposite, a steep-sided cut, valley or ravine, from the Old English ‘cinu’, a cleft.

Chine

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