chine
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The builder just chinked the gaps between stones with smaller stones.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021
The vernacular style of the house — wooden logs chinked with plaster and covered in clapboard — allows historians to date its construction to the 1750s.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2020
Joints of freshly butchered lamb are hung in a wooden shed, known as a hjallur, that is chinked with drafty gaps, allowing the islands’ incessant winds to blow through it.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018
Deborah Perry, Swadlincote, Derbyshire I felt the house shake and glass canisters in the bathroom chinked together.
From BBC • Dec. 22, 2010
The heavy jeweled chain around the old man's neck chinked softly as he shifted in his seat.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
