chinking

English

Noun

chinking (countable and uncountable, plural chinkings)

1. The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking.
2. The sound of something that chinks.
   • 1887, May Hodgson, A day of life, page 187:

     All the sounds mingle with the chinkings of the gold and silver coin […]

   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     A dozen soup-plates circulated, and a hymn was sung to the accompaniment of much chinking of coin.

Verb

chinking

1. present participle and gerund of chink