Defn: 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.]
Defn: 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. Etym: [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.