CHINKING

Noun

chinking (countable and uncountable, plural chinkings)

The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking.

The sound of something that chinks.

Verb

chinking

present 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