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prettygoodwordchinse (CHIN(T)S) - v., to calk slightly or in a makeshift fashion.
There's also a nautical meaning for a specific manner of calking with oakum using a chisel or a chinsing iron -- which may be where I picked up this word, during my year of reading every poem about the ocean I could get my hands on. Origin uncertain, like a lot of jargon and slang, but it's speculated to be an alteration of English dialect chinch, to fill up cracks, or possibly alteration of chink, what's being filled.
(Yeah, not one going into my daily-use vocabulary.)
---L.
There's also a nautical meaning for a specific manner of calking with oakum using a chisel or a chinsing iron -- which may be where I picked up this word, during my year of reading every poem about the ocean I could get my hands on. Origin uncertain, like a lot of jargon and slang, but it's speculated to be an alteration of English dialect chinch, to fill up cracks, or possibly alteration of chink, what's being filled.
(Yeah, not one going into my daily-use vocabulary.)
---L.
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