chinse Meaning, Definition & Usage

Chinse transitive verb & intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Chinsed ; present participle & verbal noun Chinsing
Definitions
  1. (Naut.) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel , the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

Webster 1913