chink vs rime

chink

noun
  • A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack. 

  • A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening. 

  • A chip or dent in something metallic. 

  • A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink. 

  • A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system. 

verb
  • To crack; to open. 

  • To cause to open in cracks or fissures. 

  • To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other. 

  • To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching. 

  • To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk. 

rime

noun
  • A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. 

  • A film or slimy coating. 

  • The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset. 

  • Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface. 

  • A step of a ladder; a rung. 

  • A coating or sheet of ice so formed. 

  • Rhyme. 

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century. 

verb
  • To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost. 

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