chinse

present singular third person chinses · participle present chinsing · participle past chinsed · past chinsed · alternative chintze

1. archaicnauticalTo caulk, or caulk slightly using oakum in joints or cracks of a wooden vessel.

   In iron vessels it is not necessary to chinse the sides above the ceiling of the bottom.

   1888, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Navigation to the Secretary of Commerce

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   Operations were at once commenced, the keeper taking charge and having all the leaks stopped as well as possible, bt chinsing the opened seams and battening the hole in her side. After that the ballast was removed, and with the aid of anchors planted off shore they succeeded on the flood tide in heaving the schooner safely afloat.

   1884, Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service

   Under Captain Mars' instructions the spaces between the limbers or floor boards of the holds were chinsed, so that the concentrates should not get through the boards into the bilges and thence into the pumps and choke them.

   1923, Cecil Patrick Thomas Foster, 1700 Miles in Open Boats