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Webster 1913 Edition

Chink

Chink

(chĭṉk)
,
Noun.
[OE.
chine
, AS.
cīne
fissure, chink, fr.
cīnan
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 a wall
.
Through one cloudless
chink
, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
Macaulay.

Chink

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Chinked
(chĭṉkt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Chinking
.]
To crack; to open.

Chink

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
2.
To fill up the chinks of;
as, to
chink
a wall
.

Chink

,
Noun.
[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.

Chink

,
Verb.
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.

Chink

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Chink

CHINK

,
Noun.
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.
I.
To crack; to open.

CHINK

,
Verb.
T.
To open or part and form a fissure.

CHINK

,
Verb.
T.
[See Jingle.] 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

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

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