chink - English dictionary definition

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Chink A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
Chink To crack; to open.
Chink To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Chink To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
Chink Money; cash.
Chink To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
Chink To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
chink a short light metallic sound