Definition of Chinked

1. Adjective. Having narrow opening filled.

Exact synonyms: Stopped-up
Similar to: Caulked

Definition of Chinked

1. Verb. (past of chink) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chinked

1. chink [v] - See also: chink

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinked

chinging
chings
chinguard
chinguards
chinic acid
chining
chiniofon
chink
chink-a-chink
chink up
chinkapin
chinkapin oak
chinkapins
chinkara
chinkaras
chinked (current term)
chinkerinchee
chinkerinchees
chinkie
chinkier
chinkies
chinkiest
chinking
chinkle
chinks
chinky
chinless
chinless wonder
chinless wonders
chinlike

Literary usage of Chinked

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"The roof is composed of thick branches of a kind of sage-brush, and the pole wattles constituting its sides are chinked with mud. ..."

2. The Law of Horses: Including the Law of Innkeepers, Veterinary Surgeons, Etc by George Henry Hewitt Oliphant, Clement Elphinstone Lloyd (1882)
"chinked in the Chine. Clicking. Cloudiness. Contraction. Farriers called it Anticor and ... For chinked in the Chine, see Broken-backed («/). ..."

3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1859 The crevices between the logs were chinked with pieces of split wood. ... 1880 A log cabin about eighteen by twenty feet, with chinked cracks, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1864)
"Very small, narrow, orange1, scarcely chinked. ... Var. aurantiaca, keel obsolete, resembling the chinked ... Whirls more swollen : base chinked. ..."

5. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1889)
"The low-eaved, "chinked," and "mud-daubed" hut, with clapboard roof, ... It was of hewn logs chinked with stone, and more neatly daubed with clay. ..."

6. The Mollusks of Western North America by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1873)
"Very small, narrow, orange, scarcely chinked. 844. ... Var. aurantiaca, keel obsolete, resembling the chinked ... Whirls more swollen : base chinked. ..."

7. In Memoriam, Eliza Boardman Burnz, Born, October 31, 1823, Deceased, June 19 by Eliza Boardman Burnz, Channing Burnz (1906)
"It had two rooms, the cabins, built of half-hewn logs, chinked and daubed with clay, probably fourteen by sixteen feet each, set end to end, about ten feet ..."

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