Chink

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.

2. Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To crack; to open.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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