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Definition of Chinking
1. Noun. The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of chink) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chinking
1. chink [v] - See also: chink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinking
Literary usage of Chinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-slaves by Austa Malinda French (1862)
"... should be used otherwise; we must say we were from the commencement of this
mission, as the " chinking" which tried to be used in filling all ungainly, ..."
2. Journal of a Tour Into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw: From Potosi by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1821)
"... daubing and chinking the house, Stc. We this day left Fisher's, and removed
to Holt's, a distance of half-a-mile, having now got his cabin in a ..."
3. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"While to receive the pay the boatman stands, And chinking pennys jingle in his
hands. Eager the sparks assault the waiting cars, Fops meet with fops, ..."
4. The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Prose and Verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853)
"it never was For Judas' pay, for chinking gold and silver, That we did leave our
King by the Great Stone.* No, not for gold and silver have there bled So ..."
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