What does "chink" mean?
Chink: To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
Additional senses
- 2.To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
- 3.A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.
- 4.Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.
- 5.To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.
- 6.To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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