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chink

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1. chink - Noun

2. chink - Adjective

3. chink - Verb

Meaning

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

To crack; to open.

To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

Money; cash.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen. John Millington Synge

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment. Arundhati Roy

This is where the shadows come to play twixt the day And night Dancing and skipping Along a chink of light. Kate Bush

Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter, it gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark. Gypsy Proverb

The mouth is a chink. Kikuyu Proverb

My treasures do not chink or glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night. Bedouin Proverb

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