CHIGRE, Chagoe, Chiggre, or Jigger. A very minute insect of tropical countries, which pierces the thick skin of the foot, and breeds there, producing great pain. It is neatly extricated with its sac entire by clever negroes.
CHILLED SHOT. Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardness which renders them of nearly equal efficiency with steel shot for penetrating iron plates, yet produced at about one-quarter the price. They invariably break up on passing through the plates, and their fragments are very destructive on crowded decks; though in the attack of iron war vessels, where the demolishment of guns, carriages, machinery, turrets, &c., is required, the palm must still be awarded to steel shot and shell.
CHIMBE [Anglo-Saxon]. The prominent part or end of the staves, where they project beyond the head of a cask.
CHIME. See [Chine].
CHIME IN, To. To join a mess meal or treat. To chime in to a chorus or song.
CHINCKLE. A small bight in a line.
CHINE. The backbone of a cliff, from the backbones of animals; a name given in the Isle of Wight, as Black Gang Chine, and along the coasts of Hampshire. Also, that part of the water-way which is left the thickest, so as to project above the deck-plank; and it is notched or gouged hollow in front, to let the water run free.
CHINE AND CHINE. Casks stowed end to end.
CHINED. Timber or plank slightly hollowed out.
CHINGLE. Gravel. (See [Shingle].)