chink

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
chink
    n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese
         descent [syn: {chink}, {Chinaman}]
    2: a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
    3: a short light metallic sound [syn: {chink}, {click}, {clink}]
    v 1: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: {tinkle},
         {tink}, {clink}, {chink}]
    2: fill the chinks of, as with caulking
    3: make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [syn:
       {check}, {chink}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \Chink\ (ch[i^][ng]k), n. [From chinaman.]
   a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.
   [slang]
   [PJC]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \Chink\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chinked} (ch[i^][ng]kt); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Chinking}.]
   To crack; to open.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \Chink\, v. t.
   1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
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   2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \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.
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   2. Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands."
      --Somerville.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Chink \Chink\ (ch[i^][ng]k), n. [OE. chine, AS. c[imac]ne
   fissure, chink, fr. c[imac]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 a wall.
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         Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
         Shines out the dewy morning star.        --Macaulay.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
241 Moby Thesaurus words for "chink":
      abysm, abyss, aperture, arroyo, assailability, bar, bezel, bind,
      block, block up, blockade, box canyon, breach, break, broach, bump,
      bung, canyon, cash, caulk, cavity, chamfer, change ringing, chap,
      chase, chasm, check, chime, chiming, chimney, choke, choke off,
      choke up, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, cleave, cleft,
      cleuch, click, clink, clog, clog up, clop, clough, clump, clunk,
      coin, col, congest, constipate, cork, corrugation, coulee, couloir,
      cover, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, crump, currency, cut,
      cut open, cwm, dado, dam, dam up, defile, dell, dike, ding,
      ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dispart, ditch, divaricate,
      divide, dong, donga, donging, dough, draw, dull thud, engraving,
      excavation, fault, fill, fill up, filthy lucre, fissure, flaw,
      flick, flume, flump, flute, fluting, fly open, foul, fracture,
      furrow, gap, gape, gash, gong, gorge, gouge, groove, gulch, gulf,
      gully, heel of Achilles, hole, incise, incision, interruption, jam,
      jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, joint,
      kloof, knell, knelling, lay open, leak, legal tender, lettuce,
      loot, microgroove, moat, notch, nullah, obstipate, obstruct, ope,
      open, open up, opening, pack, pad, part, pass, passage, pat,
      patter, peal, peal ringing, pealing, penetrability, pitapat,
      pitter-patter, plug, plug up, plump, plunk, pop, pregnability,
      rabbet, rap, ravine, rent, rifling, rift, rime, ring, ring changes,
      ringing, rip, rive, ruck, rupture, rut, scissure, score, scratch,
      seam, separate, slit, slot, soft spot, sound, sound a knell, spile,
      split, spread, spread out, spring open, stanch, stay, stench, stop,
      stop up, stopper, stopple, streak, stria, striation, stuff,
      stuff up, sulcation, sulcus, swing open, tap, tear, tear open,
      throw open, thud, thump, tick, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling,
      tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling,
      trench, tunk, valley, vincibility, void, vulnerability,
      vulnerable point, wadi, wampum, weak link, weak point, weakness,
      well-worn groove, wrinkle
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