dial. [Goes with CHINK sb.4: there appears to have been a Teut. vb. kink- to twist, entangle.] trans. To give a twist to (the vertebral column); to crook slightly, sprain.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Chink, to cause such an injury. ‘The fall chinked his back.’
1831. Youatt, Horse, x. (1843), 227. Old horses who have … some of the bones of the back or loins anchylosed—united together by bony matter and not by ligament…. Such horses are said to be broken-backed or chinked in the chine.
1881. ‘Ouida,’ Village Comm., x. As a packed mule is ‘chinked’ on the march.
