CHINKn.
A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.
CHINKv.i.
To crack; to open.
CHINKv.t.
To open or part and form a fissure.
CHINKv.t.
[See Jingle.] To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.
CHINKv.i.
To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.