chinking vs clink

chinking

noun
  • The sound of something that chinks. 

  • The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking. 

clink

noun
  • The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass. 

  • A prison. 

  • Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast. 

verb
  • To clinch; to rivet. 

  • To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another. 

How often have the words chinking and clink occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )