6 entries under this word
n. [O. Eng. chine, A-S. cine, fissure, chink, from cinan, to gape.] 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.
v. i. To crack; to open.
v. t. 1. To open or part and form a fissure in. 2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
n. [Perhaps from the sound of jingling metal.]
v. t. [imp. & p. p. CHINKED (chinkt); p. pr. & vb. n. CHINKING.] [See JINGLE.] To cause to sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, or any small, sonorous bodies, by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.
v. i. To make a small, sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.