Chinkled vs Chinked - What's the difference?
chinkled | chinked |
(chinkle)
(rare) To chink or jingle
To tinkle or cause to tinkle; produce a continued chinking sound
(rare) A ringing sound of low volume
* 1937 , Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn
(chink)
A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
*:Yet I did not give way, but settled to wait for the dawn, which must, I knew, be now at hand; for then I thought enough light would come through the chinks of the tomb above to show me how to set to work.
* Macaulay
A chip or dent (in something metallic).
A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system, idiomatically derived from the phrase "chink in armor".
* The warrior saw a chink in her enemy's armor, and aimed her spear accordingly.
* The chink in the theory is that the invaders have superior muskets.
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To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
To crack; to open.
To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other.
Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
*1834 , David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, pp. 47-8:
*:I thought that if all the hills about there were pure chink , and all belonged to me, I would give them if I could just talk to her when I wanted to
* Somerville
To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
As verbs the difference between chinkled and chinked
is that chinkled is past tense of chinkle while chinked is past tense of chink.chinkled
English
Verb
(head)chinkle
English
Etymology 1
Variation of (kinkle).Etymology 2
From .Verb
(chinkl)- He chinkled the coins in his pocket.
Noun
(en noun)- Adare rang the bell. So still was the night that now the sighing in the room had stopped and the birds had settled down again in their tree, he could hear the chinkle of the bell, tossing on its wire in the kitchen fifty yards away, downstairs.
References
(chinkling of rails), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4pJhaDsDE-QC&pg=PA262&dq=%22chinkle%22&hl=en&ei=zbwpTIrqAsWclgfVqfTEAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBTgK] (chinkle of reins), [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B9FBAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chinkles%22&dq=%22chinkles%22&hl=en&ei=57wpTLesJ4WKlwftoMHBAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDUQ6AEwBA(the fountain chinkles)
chinked
English
Verb
(head)chink
English
Etymology 1
Of uncertain origin; but apparently an extension (with formative (m)) of (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Through one cloudless chink , in a black, stormy sky, / Shines out the dewy morning star.
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Verb
(en verb)- to chink a wall
Etymology 2
Onomatopoeic.Noun
(en noun)- to leave his chink to better hands
Verb
(en verb)- The coins were chinking in his pocket.
- (Alexander Pope)