English English Dictionary
Result for Chink
Chink
(n.)
A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Chink
(v. i.)
To crack; to open.
Chink
(v. t.)
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chink
(v. t.)
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink
(n.)
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink
(n.)
Money; cash.
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.
Chink
(v. i.)
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.