vbl. sb. Obs. [f. CHINE v.1 + -ING1.] Cracking, fissuring; a chink or crack.

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a. 1420.  Occleve, De Reg. Princ., 152. At many a chynnyng … they myghten beholde And see.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 138. Than take mosse and laye thervpon for chynynge of the claye.

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1545.  Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, 122. Chappynge, or chynynge of the mouthe.

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1632.  Massinger, Believe as You List, III. ii. I did expect The chininge of his fork.

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