Definitions

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  • adjective lacking any filling or caulking in the cracks and chinks. Particularly of log cabins and similar constructions.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ chink

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Examples

  • My room is nearly the open air, being built of unchinked logs, and, as in the open air, one requires to sleep with the head buried in blankets, or the eyelids and breath freeze.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • Queen Anne mansion an unchinked log cabin with a vault of sunny blue overhead.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • In my unchinked room the mercury is 1 degrees below zero.

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • The roof was in holes, the logs were unchinked, and one end of the cabin was partially removed!

    A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains 2007

  • The house-unchinked, with just a few loose boards over the dirt for flooring-consisted of a single room and two large beds for a family of seven.

    The Toughest Deer Hunter Ever 2004

  • We will need their armor unchinked in the battles to come.

    Firedoglake » Boltin’ Joe: Is It Happening Already? 2006

  • The house-unchinked, with just a few loose boards over the dirt for flooring-consisted of a single room and two large beds for a family of seven.

    The Toughest Deer Hunter Ever 2004

  • There not being time to get to the woods, the three others gathered up weapons they had made from farm implements and went to hide in a fodder crib, where they watched the road between the unchinked poles of the wall.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • There not being time to get to the woods, the three others gathered up weapons they had made from farm implements and went to hide in a fodder crib, where they watched the road between the unchinked poles of the wall.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • But the most unpleasant part for the officer of the guard is that the partition in between the officer's room and guard room is of logs, unchinked, and very open, and the weather is very hot! and the bugs, which keep us all in perpetual warfare in our houses, have full sway there, going from one room to the other.

    Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe

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