dial. [app. a variant of KINK, a twist: cf. the corresp. vb. CHINK4.] (See quot.)

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a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Chink, a sprain on the back or loins, seeming to imply a slight separation of the vertebræ.

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  Hence Chink-backed a.

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1868.  Daily News, 8 Dec., 5/6. The chink-backed bullock on wall and omnibus has once more issued its warning to the metropolis that the Christmas feast of fat things is at Islington.

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  Chink, obs. form of CHINCH sb.1, bug.

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