See quot. 1848.
1818. The intervals between the logs “chunked,” that is, filled in with slips of wood; and “mudded,” that is, daubed with a plaister of mud.—M. Birkbeck, ‘Letters from Illinois,’ p. 30.
[For fuller quotation see CLAP-BOARD.]
1822. Sir W. Scott’s ‘Nigel’ (N.E.D.).
1829. They knew better than he did how to “daub and chink” a log cabin.—T. Flint, ‘George Mason,’ p. 10 (Boston).
1835. [In dressing up as Daniel Lambert,] Billy required the aid of at least eight pillows, with some extra chinking, as we say in Georgia, to give him a bulk corresponding with this enormous weight.—A. B. Longstreet, ‘Georgia Scenes,’ p. 197. (Italics in the original.)
1848. The spaces between the logs of the house were closed by “chinking,” or small blocks of wood riding upon each other, and afterward daubed and plastered with tempered clay or mud…. The chimney was chinked, daubed, and plastered similar to the house, except that the plastering was chiefly inside, and quite thick, to protect the wooden structure from the action of the fire within.—Monette, ‘History of the Mississippi Valley,’ ii. 5–6.
1853. The space between the outside boards and the inside laths was chinked with mud. In this mud all the numerous kinds of reptiles stowed themselves snugly away for the winter, and there remained luxuriating in torpidity until the genial sun of spring thawed them out.—Knick. Mag., xli. 330 (April).
1859. The crevices between the logs were chinked with pieces of split wood.—Mrs. Duniway, ‘Captain Gray’s Company,’ p. 19 (Portland, Oregon). (Italics in the original.)
1880. His storehouse (which was a log-cabin about eighteen by twenty feet, with chinked cracks, clapboard roof, and puncheon floor).—Peter H. Burnett, ‘Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer,’ p. 29 (N.Y.).
