chink

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.
2. v. To make narrow openings in.
3. v. To fill narrow openings in.
4. n. A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.
5. v. To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A crack; a cleft, rent, or fissure of greater length than breadth; a gap: as, the chinks of a wall.
2. To crack; split; gape.
3. To cause to open or part and form a fissure; make chinks in.
4. To fill up chinks in: as, to chink a wall or a pavement.
5. To put into a chink or chinks: as, to chink in mortar.
6. To make a fine sharp sound, as that produced by the collision of small pieces of metal.
7. To cause to emit a sharp, clear metallic sound, as by shaking coins together.
8. n. A short, sharp, clear metallic sound.
9. n. Coin: so called from its metallic ring.
10. n. The chaffinch, Fringilla Cœlebs.
11. n. The reed-bunting, Emberiza schæniculus.
12. n. A fit, as of coughing or laughing.
13. n. An obsolete form of chinch.
14. n. The variegated pattern shown by oak and other woods when cut across the grain.
15. n. A sprain of the back.
16. n. A Chinaman.

Wiktionary

1. n. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
2. n. A chip or dent (in something metallic).
3. n. A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".
4. n. slang coin or ready cash (1565-75)
5. v. To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
6. n. A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
7. n. colloquial Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
8. v. To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
9. n. Alternative form of Chink.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack.
2. n. slang a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.
3. v. To crack; to open.
4. v. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
5. v. To fill up the chinks of.
6. n. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
7. n. Cant Money; cash.
8. v. To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
9. v. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make cracks or chinks in
2. n. a short light metallic sound
3. n. (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
4. v. fill the chinks of, as with caulking
5. n. a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
6. v. make or emit a high sound