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chintze

chintze is the alternative form 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.

Forms of chintze

third-person singular presentchintzes
present participlechintzing
past participlechintzed
pastchintzed

Questions about chintze

What is chintze the alternative form of?
Chintze is the alternative form of chinse.

Words near chintze in the dictionary

  1. chinthes
  2. Chintin
  3. chints
  4. chintses
  5. chintz
  6. chintze
  7. chintzes
  8. chintzier
  9. chintziest
  10. chintzified
  11. chintzily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chintze (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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