Obs. App. a variant of CHAMP, or a word representing a similar action.
1565. Golding, Ovid’s Met., VIII. (1593), 206. Ramping up the grasse With uglie nailes and chanking it.
1610. Markham, Masterp., I. xii. 34. His tongue could not well part from the roofe without a kinde of chanking.
