chink
Speech parts
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.
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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.
Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.
This is where the shadows come to play twixt the day And night Dancing and skipping Along a chink of light.
Gypsy gold does not chink and glitter, it gleams in the sun and neighs in the dark.
The mouth is a chink.
My treasures do not chink or glitter. They gleam in the sun and neigh in the night.