chinse, v.
(tʃɪns)
Also 8 chince, 9 chintze, chinch.
[App. the typical form is chinch, dial. var. of chink v.2 Of this chinse and chintze are corruptions.]
1. dial. = chink v.2 3.
| 1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Labrador (1792) I. 24 Fogarty chinsed the storehouse with moss. Ibid. 65, I ordered some of the workmen to gather moss, and chinse the store. 1792 Ibid. Gloss. p. x, Chinsing, filling with moss the vacancies between the studs of houses, to keep out the wind and frost. 1887 Parish & Shaw Kent. Gloss. Chinch, to point or fill up the interstices between bricks, tiles, etc., with mortar. |
2. † To caulk; now Naut. to caulk slightly or temporarily; to stop seams, etc., which do not admit of regular caulking. Hence ˈchinsing vbl. n.; attrib. in chinsing-iron, a caulker's tool for chinsing seams with, Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
| 1513 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. 267 Loke ye haue a chynchynge yron, addes, and lynen clothes. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 317 As..we might go down immediately..we had no other resource left than chincing and caulking within board. 1776 Falconer Marine Dict., Chinse, is to thrust oakum into a seam or chink with the point of a knife or chissel. This is used as a temporary expedient when calking cannot be safely or conveniently performed. 1804 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 4 The doors, etc. of the ward-room, were chinsed up to keep out the smoke. c 1860 H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 61 The space..must be..filled up with battens, and chintzed. |