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chinsing

chinsing is the present participle and gerund 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 chinsing

What is chinsing the present participle and gerund of?
Chinsing is the present participle and gerund of chinse.

Words near chinsing in the dictionary

  1. Chinsha Chiang
  2. Chinshachiang
  3. Chinshan
  4. chinshield
  5. chinshields
  6. chinsing
  7. chinstrap
  8. chinstrap penguin
  9. chinstrap penguins
  10. chinstrapped
  11. chinstraps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chinsing (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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