Chink /(chĭṉk)/

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

   Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star.

1. a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive. [slang]

imp. & p. p. Chinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking

1. To crack; to open.

1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
2. Money; cash. [Cant]

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

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