Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having narrow opening filled
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Examples
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Half a dozen people accepted his invitation and coins chinked in his cup.
A Funeral In Blue Perry, Anne, 1938- 2001
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The brass tag chinked as he dropped it on to the carpet.
Crime On the Coast Carr, John Dickson 1984
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The brass tag chinked as he dropped it on to the carpet.
Crime On the Coast Carr, John Dickson 1984
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With her undamaged hand she produced a rupee from her pocket, where a few coins chinked casually, looked at it, and groped for another.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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A coin chinked on the steps in accompaniment to the chasseur's departing gallop.
Vittoria — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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He endeavored, however, to look cool and unconcerned; and drew from out of his deep pocket a long, lank, leathern purse, far gone in consumption, at the bottom of which a few coin chinked with the trembling of his hand.
Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821
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a long, lank, leathern purse, far gone in consumption, at the bottom of which a few coin chinked with the trembling of his hand.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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Near the upper end of the Cove, which is nearly a mile long, there stands a house built of squared logs, carefully mortised at the corners, and neatly "chinked" with plaster.
The Durket Sperret, 1898
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