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单词 chinse
释义

chinsev.

/tʃɪns/
Forms: Also 1700s chince, 1800s chintze, chinch.
Etymology: Apparently the typical form is chinch, dialect variant of chink v.2 Of this chinse and chintze are corruptions.
1. dialect. = chink v.2 3.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > clad or cover [verb (transitive)] > fill in gaps
stop1388
beamfill1469
stuff1601
caulk1616
run1657
strike1668
fog1678
chinse1770
sneck1792
darn1801
pug1820
chink1822
grout1838
fillet1843
gallet1851
slush1875
putty1879
spackle1950
1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) I. 24 Fogarty chinsed the storehouse with moss.
1770 G. Cartwright Jrnl. (1792) I. 65 I ordered some of the workmen to gather moss, and chinse the store.
1792 G. Cartwright Jrnl. Gloss. p. x Chinsing, filling with moss the vacancies between the studs of houses, to keep out the wind and frost.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. Chinch, to point or fill up the interstices between bricks, tiles, etc., with mortar.
2. †To caulk; now Nautical to caulk slightly or temporarily; to stop seams, etc., which do not admit of regular caulking.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > make watertight > caulk > slightly or temporarily
chinse1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Chinse, is to thrust oakum into a seam or chink with the point of a knife or chissel..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.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 61 The space..must be..filled up with battens, and chintzed.

Compounds

chinsing-iron n. a caulker's tool for chinsing seams with, Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > caulking seams > tools
chinsing-iron1508
caulker1543
reef hook1617
caulking-iron1627
caulking-mallet1627
horse-iron1750
rave-hook1780
meaking iron1853
sharp-iron1887
1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.iiv Loke ye haue a chynchynge yron addes and lynen clothes.

Derivatives

ˈchinsing n.
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1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 317 As..we might go down immediately..we had no other resource left than chincing and caulking within board.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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