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