Chinse: alternatives and connections

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly…

To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smear…

of Calk

A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

A calk on a shoe. See Calk, n., 1.

of Calk

See 2d Calk, v. t.

See Calk.

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack; as, the sun checks timber.

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.

Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone…

To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.

A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface; -- called also drove chisel.

A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent rhombohedral cryst…

The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…