Definition of "chinking" [chinking]

• The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking. (noun)
• Present participle of chink. (verb)

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• "That is what they called chinking to keep the wind and rain out."
• "The chinking was a simple matter, and when it was all done, including"
• "She _smelt_, so to say, that there was something underneath the offer which was not to her advantage; but then the thought of thirty crowns a month, of all those coins chinking in her apron, falling to her, as it were, from the skies, without her doing anything for it, filled her with covetousness."