Coffee is among the most consumed beverages worldwide. According to Statista, an average person consumes roughly 42.6 liters of coffee per year.
chinked, stopped-up
(adjective) having narrow opening filled
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chinked
simple past tense and past participle of chink
Source: Wiktionary
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
26 December 2024
(noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)
Coffee is among the most consumed beverages worldwide. According to Statista, an average person consumes roughly 42.6 liters of coffee per year.