Chink
Chink (chink) , noun
[Old English chine, Anglo-Saxon cīne fissure, chink, from cīnan to gape; akin to Gothic Keinan to sprout, German keimen. Compare 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.
Chink (chink) , noun
[From chinaman.]
a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive. [slang]
Chink (chinkt) , intransitive verb
To crack; to open.
Chink , transitive verb
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. Compare Jingle.]
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.
Chink , transitive verb
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 , intransitive verb
To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. — Arbuthnot