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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 chink /ˈʧɪŋk/
 裂口,裂縫,弱點,叮噹聲(vt.)使叮噹響(vi.)堵裂縫,叮噹響

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Chink n.  A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
 Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
 Shines out the dewy morning star.   --Macaulay.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Chink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.] To crack; to open.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Chink, v. t.
 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
 2. To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Chink, n.
 1. A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence. Chink of bell.”
 2. Money; cash. [Cant] “To leave his chink to better hands.”

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Chink, 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.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Chink, v. i. To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 chink
      n 1: offensive terms for a person of Chinese descent [syn: Chinaman]
      2: a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
      3: a short light metallic sound [syn: click, clink]
      v 1: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle,
           tink, clink]
      2: fill the chinks of, as with caulking
      3: make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [syn:
          check]