Chink (?), n. [OE. chine, AS. cine fissure, chink, fr. cinan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.]
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
Macaulay.
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Chink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.]
To crack; to open.
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Chink, v. t.
1.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
2.
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
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Chink, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]
1.
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
"
Chink of bell."
Cowper.
2.
Money; cash.
[Cant] "To leave his
chink to better hands."
Somerville.
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Chink, v. t.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Pope.
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Chink, v. i.
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
Arbuthnot.
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