Word Meaning

chinks definition and meaning

n. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
v. i. To crack; to open.
v. t. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
v. t. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
n. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
n. Money; cash.
v. t. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

Crossword clues for chinks

- Small crack