a small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.-to crack; to open.-to cause to open in cracks or fissures.-to fill up the chinks of; as, to chink a wall.-a short, sharp sound, as of metal struck with a slight degree of violence.-money; cash.-to cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.-to make a slight, sharp, metallic sound, as by the collision of little pieces of money, or other small sonorous bodies.