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Definition of Chinked
1. Adjective. Having narrow opening filled.
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
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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