chinking

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Noun

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chinking (countable and uncountable, plural chinkings)

  1. The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking.
  2. The sound of something that chinks.
    • 1887, May Hodgson, A day of life, page 187:
      All the sounds mingle with the chinkings of the gold and silver coin []
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      A dozen soup-plates circulated, and a hymn was sung to the accompaniment of much chinking of coin.

Verb

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chinking

  1. present participle and gerund of chink