chink

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A slight, metallic sound, as of coins rattling in a pocket.
• intransitive & transitive verb To make or cause to make a slight, metallic sound.
• noun A narrow opening, such as a crack or fissure.
• transitive verb To make narrow openings in.
• transitive verb To fill narrow openings in.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A crack; a cleft, rent, or fissure of greater length than breadth; a gap: as, the chinks of a wall.
• noun A sprain of the back.
• To make a fine sharp sound, as that produced by the collision of small pieces of metal.
• To cause to emit a sharp, clear metallic sound, as by shaking coins together.
• noun An obsolete form of chinch.
• To crack; split; gape.
• To cause to open or part and form a fissure; make chinks in.
• To fill up chinks in: as, to chink a wall or a pavement.
• To put into a chink or chinks: as, to chink in mortar.
• noun A short, sharp, clear metallic sound.
• noun Coin: so called from its metallic ring.
• noun A fit, as of coughing or laughing.
• noun A Chinaman.
• noun The chaffinch, Fringilla Cœlebs.
• noun The reed-bunting, Emberiza schæniculus.
• noun The variegated pattern shown by oak and other woods when cut across the grain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack.
• intransitive verb To crack; to open.
• noun slang a chinaman; a chinese person; -- disparaging and offensive.
• intransitive verb To make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.
• transitive verb To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
• transitive verb To fill up the chinks of.
• transitive verb To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
• noun A short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.
• noun Cant Money; cash.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
• noun colloquial Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
• verb To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
• noun A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
• noun A chip or dent (in something metallic).
• noun A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".
• noun slang coin or ready cash (1565-75)
• verb To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
• noun Alternative form of Chink.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make cracks or chinks in
• noun a short light metallic sound
• noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
• verb fill the chinks of, as with caulking
• noun a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
• verb make or emit a high sound