A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as the chinks of a wall.

To crack; to open.

t To open or part and form a fissure.

To cause to sound by shaking coins or small pieces of metal, or by bringing small sonorous bodies in collision; as, to chink a purse of money.

To make a small sharp sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other sonorous bodies.