Thesaurus / chink
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In letting one of the company out she incautiously stood looking through the open chink into the dark passage.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEI found a chink in the wall and beheld the face of the Englishman peering from the small end window.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERMysie dashed the warm tears from her eyes, and looked again through the chink in the shutter.
THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSHAnd whenever at work he happened to spy At chink or crevice a blinking eye, He let the dipper of water fly.
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUSAccording to Skeat jingle, “a frequentative verb from the base jink,” is allied to chink, and chink is “an imitative word”.
ARCHAIC ENGLANDHAROLD BAYLEYIt was the first chink I had seen in the armor of my young Goliath, and I put in my rapier.
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHANThe dwarf put his ear to a chink in the door and listened intently.
TWO LITTLE TRAVELLERSFRANCES BROWNE ARTHURI saw it plainly, for I peeped in through a chink in the wall.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE - VOLUME 62, NO. 384, OCTOBER 1847VARIOUSI opened a small chink of the door to look out, and perceived two ragged men, each leaning on a large club.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, NO. VII, DECEMBER 1850, VOL. IIVARIOUSIt was now nearly calm and in every crack and chink in the snow-bridges beautiful fern-like ice-crystals were seen.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONWORDS RELATED TO CHINK
- aperture
- breach
- break
- burrow
- cave
- cavern
- cavity
- chamber
- chasm
- chink
- cistern
- cleft
- crack
- cranny
- crater
- cut
- den
- dent
- depression
- dimple
- dip
- excavation
- eyelet
- fissure
- foramen
- fracture
- gap
- gash
- gorge
- hollow
- hovel
- keyhole
- lacuna
- lair
- leak
- mouth
- nest
- niche
- nick
- notch
- orifice
- outlet
- passage
- peephole
- perforation
- pit
- pockmark
- puncture
- rent
- retreat
- scoop
- shaft
- shelter
- split
- tear
- tunnel
- vacuity
- vent
- void
- window
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