chinks is a form of:
Chink
noun
- 1.
- (a narrow opening or slit, a crack, fissure) ក្រហែង, ស្នាមប្រេះ, ស្នាមប្រេះនៅជញ្ជាំងឥដ្ឋ, ប្រហោងបង្ហើប
verb — past tense: chinked ; past participle: chinked ; present participle: chinking ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to fill the cracks of) ភ្ជិតស្មាមប្រេះ, ចុកស្នាមប្រេះ
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
- 2.
- A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
verb — past tense: chinked ; past participle: chinked ; present participle: chinking ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- 4.
- (TRANSITIVE) To fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.
- 1.
- Money, cash
- 2.
- To crack, to open