Chink

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1. Noun

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

2. Verb

To crack; to open.

3. Verb

To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

4. Verb

To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

5. Noun

A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.

6. Noun

Money; cash.

7. Verb

To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.

8. Verb

To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
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