Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
CHINKED
chinked, stopped-up
(adjective) having narrow opening filled
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
chinked
simple past tense and past participle of chink
Source: Wiktionary
CHINK
Chink, n. Etym: [OE. chine, AS. cine fissure, chink, fr. cinan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.]
Definition: A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.
Chink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.]
Definition: To crack; to open.
Chink, v. t.
1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
Chink, n. Etym: [Of imitative origin. Cf. Jingle.]
1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. "Chink of bell." Cowper.
2. Money; cash. [Cant] "To leave his chink to better hands." Somerville.
Chink, v. t.
Definition: To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. Pope.
Chink, v. i.
Definition: To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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