[f. CHINK v.1; = northern KINK.] A convulsive gasp for breath, or spasmodic losing of the breath, as in hooping cough; a convulsive fit of coughing or laughing.
[a. 1500. Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 791 (Nom. Infirmitat.) Hec reuma, a chynge.]
1767. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual., iv. My Lord and Lady took such a chink of laughing, that it was some time before they could recover.
1853. Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford, ix. (1864), 135 (D.). The boys around him were in chinks of laughing.
