chankingn.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. xii. 34 His tongue could not well part from the roofe without a kinde of chanking.

1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. xxii. 55 Labour and drought will make the pallat of a beasts mouth to fall downe, which you shall know by a certaine hollow chanking in his mouth.

1830 Macon (Georgia) Tel. 25 Sept. 1/5 As they moved up the long aisle, the chanking of armor aroused them to a full and bitter knowledge of their situation.

1866 Gleanings Bee Culture 15 July 495/2 After digging around in the grass roots as before, making quite a chanking and blowing, he [sc. a fish] flopped back in again.

1913 A. I. Root & E. R. Root ABC & XYZ Bee Culture (rev. ed.) 72/1 They are voracious eaters, and the ‘chanking’ they make, when at full work, reminds one of a lot of hogs.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 22 Feb. 7 Outside the cage, various ‘insect-machines’ edge forwards, adding their metallic clatterings and chankings to the sound score.

1803 J. Badger Jrnl. 17 Aug. in Memoir (1851) v. 56 All was still but the chanking of the horse.

1873 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 13 Oct. 4/3 The continuous chanking of their jaws, as long as the supply of peanuts holds out..is the nearest approach to perpetual motion we have ever known.

1903 Brit. Jrnl. Dental Sci. 46 499 To promote 'mongst their offspring the ‘chanking’ of crust.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 4 Mar. (1981) VIII. 28 What is that gray beetle of which I found many under the bark of a large dead white pine..with some red bark chankings?

1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 36 Chamblings, husks of corn, or other very small scraps of what has been gnawed by vermin. Sometimes called Chankings.

1922 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 569/2 Saying, when he caught them eating apples behind their table-desk, ‘Children, kindly throw your chankings out of the window.’

1946 Amer. Speech 21 307 When eating an apple or other fruit with rough or thick skin, my mother would say, ‘Put your chankings in the stove.’