chinning

Say, broke in Mr. Hooker suddenly, while were chinning here, weve forgotten something.

He had gotten Polly in a corner and was chinning the ear off of her.

He raised himself by chinning up to the window ledge and got a bird's eye view of the situation at a glance.

And as soon as Frank had finished chinning with Mother Powers, and had gone, she'd go back and finish her churning.

Amid encouraging cries and various criticisms, the “chinning” went on until Gus Coulter had pulled himself up twelve times.