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What's The Definition Of Chink?

\Chink\, n. [OE. chine, AS. c[=i]ne fissure, chink, fr. c[=i]nan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. {Chit}.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. --Macaulay.
\Chink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chinking}.] To crack; to open.
\Chink\, v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures. 2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
\Chink\, n. [Of imitative origin. Cf. {Jingle}.] 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. ``Chink of bell.'' --Cowper. 2. Money; cash. [Cant] ``To leave his chink to better hands.'' --Somerville.
\Chink\, v. t. 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\, v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. --Arbuthnot.