v. 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.
1887. Parish & Shaw, Kent. Gloss. Chinch.… To point or fill up the interstices between bricks, tiles, &c., with mortar.
2. † To caulk; now Naut. to caulk slightly or temporarily; to stop seams, etc., which do not admit of regular caulking. Hence Chinsing vbl. sb.; attrib. in chinsing-iron, a caulker’s tool for chinsing seams with, Smyth, Sailor’s Wd.-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, &c. of the ward-room, were chinsed up to keep out the smoke.
c. 1860. H. Stuart, Seaman’s Catech., 61. The space between the tanks must be immediately filled up with battens, and chintzed.
