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Chink   /tʃɪŋk/   Listen
noun
Chink  n.  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."



Chink  n.  A chinaman; a chinese person; disparaging and offensive. (slang)



Chink  n.  
1.
A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell."
2.
Money; cash. (Cant) "To leave his chink to better hands."



verb
Chink  v. t.  
1.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
2.
To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.



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.  (past & past part. chinked; pres. part. chinking)  To crack; to open.



Chink  v. i.  To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.






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"Chink" Quotes from Famous Books



... fellow that lives behind picture frames and in unused jugs and corners. His body is only about an inch and a half long, but his clear voice fills the large rooms and emphasies the silence. Outside it is as quiet; there is the chink—chink of the copper-smith bird, like a drop of water at regular ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... the Princess, his daughter, went to and from the bath. Aladdin was seized by a desire to see her face, which was very difficult, as she always went veiled. He hid himself behind the door of the bath, and peeped through a chink. The Princess lifted her veil as she went in, and looked so beautiful that Aladdin fell in love with her at first sight. He went home so changed that his mother was frightened. He told her he loved the Princess so deeply that he could not live without her, and meant to ask ...
— The Blue Fairy Book • Various

... there listened. I heard it, but not so clearly as before. I set out as well as I could judge in the direction of the sound. I could find nothing. My lantern lighted only a few yards around me, and the wind was so strong that it blew through every chink, and threatened momently to blow it out. My wife was by my side before I knew she ...
— The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 • George MacDonald

... slowly she went up the stair and through the narrowed ways, and heard the same wind that raved alike about the new grave and the old house, into which latter, for all the bales banked against the walls, it found many a chink of entrance. The smell of the linen, of the blue cloth, and of the brown paper—things no longer to be handled by those tender, faithful hands—was dismal and strange, and haunted her like things ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald

... have the grit in them, yes. (Still seeing with a strange clearness through the chink the hammer has made.) And they are not the dismal chappies; they are the ones with the thin bright faces. (He sits lugubriously by his wife and is sorry for the first time that she has not married a better man.) I am afraid there is not much ...
— Dear Brutus • J. M. Barrie


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