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Meanings of chinked in English

Having narrow opening filled.

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Usage of chinked in English
1
The cabins were built of logs and chinked with rock and mud.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
2
A couple of these chinked together as they dropped into the bag.
Corporal Sam and Other Stories
3
It was built of saplings, eight feet square and chinked with mud.
The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academ...
4
Brodie and Auld's houses are cold because they only half chinked them.
The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825
5
Hearne the Romany was poor, Pine the Gentile chinked gold in his pockets.
Red Money
6
He put his hand in his pocket and chinked some pieces of money.
The Amulet
7
So they did, and the plates clattered and the glasses chinked.
The History of Mr. Polly
8
It was well-chinked and sturdy, and even had the luxury of a window.
The Snowshoe Trail
9
A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop.
Vittoria — Volume 4
10
They chinked up the cracks with mud and covered it with a board.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
11
He struck his boot upon the ground, so that the guineas chinked within.
The Return of the Native
12
The roof was tight, the walls were well chinked with moss.
The Blue Flower
13
Half a dozen people accepted his invitation, and coins chinked in his cup.
Funeral in Blue
14
It was a large room, with the log walls neatly chinked and whitewashed.
Judith of the Godless Valley
15
Then I saw her, dodging between two of the chinked pebble-houses.
The Door Through Space
16
It was chinked open, and all he had to do was burst in.
Shadowland
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