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Chink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.

Chink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To crack; to open.

2. To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.

Chink [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To open or part and form a fissure.

2. To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.

Chink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

2. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

3. Money; cash.

Chink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To crack; to open.

2. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

Chink [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

3. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

Chinkapin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The dwarf chestnut, Fagus pumila, a tree that rises eight or ten feet, with a branching shrubby stem, producing a nut.

Chinked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Chinking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Chinky [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full of chinks, or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

Chinky [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.