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5 lettersPronunciation /t͡ʃɪŋk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted chiknStarts with CEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. make cracks or chinks in

Word origin

Of uncertain origin, but apparently an extension, with diminutive -k (see more at -ock), of Middle English chine (or, if already suffixed in Middle English, *chinek), from Old English ċine (“a crack, chine, chink”), equivalent to chine + -k.

Used in a sentence

  • What a pity they didn’t stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
  • Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work.
  • Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.

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