Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHINK
CHINK, n. [This word may be a derivative from the Saxon cinan, or ginian, geonan, to gape, to yawn; Gr. χαινω; or from the common root of these words. Sax. cina, or cinu, a fissure.]
A small aperture lengthwise; a cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
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