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chinses

chinses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chinse.

Meaning of chinse

Verb

chinse (third-person singular simple present chinses, present participle chinsing, simple past and past participle chinsed)

  1. (obsolete) To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel, the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.

Questions about chinses

What is chinses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chinses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chinse.

Words near chinses in the dictionary

  1. chinrests
  2. chins
  3. chins up
  4. chinse
  5. chinsed
  6. chinses
  7. chinsful
  8. Chinsha
  9. Chinsha Chiang
  10. Chinshachiang
  11. Chinshan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chinses (page history and authors); chinse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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