[f. CHINK v.2 + -ING1.]

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  † 1.  Fissuring, cracking. Obs.

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1565–78.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Lysis, a chinking or opening of a wall.

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  2.  Chinking and daubing: the process of filling the chinks of log-houses, and plastering them over with clay; cf. CHINK v.2 3. U.S.

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1840.  Carolina Beacon, 27 April, 4/1.

        We’ll turn out and build Old Tip a new Cabin;
And finished it off with chinkin’ and daubin’.

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  3.  Material for filling up chinks. U.S.

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a. 1848.  Carlton, New Purchase, I. 61 (Bartlett). The chinking being large chips and small slabs … and the daubing yellow clay.

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1884.  J. G. Bourke, Snake-Dance of Moquis, vii. 67. Palisade, filled in with mud chinking.

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1888.  Amer. Missionary, April, 108. She wore one of the smallest thimbles with a bit of cloth inside for ‘chinking’ to keep it on.

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