Chink

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Money; cash.

II. Chink ·vt To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

III. Chink ·vt To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

IV. Chink ·vi To Crack; to Open.

V. Chink ·noun A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

VI. Chink ·noun A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

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

VIII. Chink ·vt To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, ·etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

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