I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the chink of knives and forks
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Through a chink in the shutter we could see Ralph.
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Boards let in chinks of dying light from the sky's embers.
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In the wall both houses shared there was a little chink .
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One chink of light had appeared, however: Steve was talking to her.
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Outside, bigger, rougher rocks were piled up to the eaves, with scant little chinks left for doorways and windows.
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She could hear laughter and talking and the chink of glasses.
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The jawless fish, even though their heads were heavily plated with bone, had chinks in their armour to accommodate eyes.
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The ladies' bathhouse is round, with little chinks of windows.
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The painfully neat clothes bear witness that, depressed as she was, she allowed no chink in her armor.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A few pennies chinked in my pocket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they were going up, the Columbia tributaries were also being chinked full of dams.
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He laid upon the table a drawstring purse of soft leather, that chinked faintly as it shifted and settled.
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I send them to you now in a pill-box wrapped close in paper that they mayn't chink .
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The cracks between the logs are chinked by oakum that I have laboriously pounded in.