They were chinked with moss and the roof covered with earth, there being no time to saw boards to cover.
Doctor Root's surprise den, or "loggery," is made of whole logs and chinkedwith moss.
When the logs meet the rafter pole all the cracks are chinked up with small pieces of wood and the crevices calked with moss.
The logs of the fireplace, where they run next to the cabin, may have to be chinked up so as to keep them level, but the chimney should be built level as it has four sides to balance it.
Chinking If your logs are uneven and leave large spaces between them, they may be chinked up by filling the spaces with mud plaster or cement, and then forcing in quartered pieces of small logs and nailing them or spiking them in position.
The round logs of which the rough building was constructed, were well chinked between them with moss, making it snug and warm.
With the kettle of hot tea the three crawled into the igloo, dragging after them a block of snow which Akonuk fitted neatly into the entrance and chinked the edges with loose snow.
In the outer face of the buildings there are no signs of mortar, the intervals between the beds being chinked with stones of the minutest thinness.
The sun heated the yellowed grass; the ground was all chinked with crevices which in dividing formed, as it were, monstrous paving-stones.
His voice leaped suddenly out of its difficult timbre of restraint and rang echoing against the chinked timbers of the walls.
It was built of spruce logs, chinked with mud and moss.
The cabin was a mere hut, built of small logs, chinked with moss and mud, and was less than five feet high at the eaves.
He put his hand in his pocket andchinked some pieces of money.
When Julio was left alone he put his hand in his pocket, chinked the gold coins, and drew out a handful for the pleasure of contemplating them; but he soon returned the money to his doublet, and fell into deep thought.
Log houses, made out of logs andchinked up with sticks and mud in the cracks.
I was born in a old double log house chinked and dobbed.
The dull red light of the embers gloomed on the daubed andchinked walls of the old log house, with its rude puncheon floor.
He did not fall asleep at once, but lay staring up at the flicker of firelight dancing about on the mud-chinked logs overhead.
Outside the blizzard raged in unabated fury, but so sheltered was the shack by scrub hemlocks and banks of snow roof-high, that but little wind found its way through the mud-chinked log walls.
Ross, accustomed to his tirades, cleared away the dishes, pushed the table back against the dirt chinked logs, and lay down on the blankets of his bunk for a few moments, his eyes glued on the little nickel clock.
The doorway opening into the large dining-hall of the inn, now entirely destroyed and uninhabitable, had a few planks nailed across it which were chinked with a mixture of chopped straw and mud.
Rigaud chinked the money, weighed it in his hand, threw it up a little way and caught it, chinked it again.
Rigaud, with a loud laugh, drummed his heels against the table, and chinked his money.
Not one was left upon them that night, when he put something that chinked into the doctor's greasy palm.
We had ole ragged huts made out of poles and some of de cracks chinked up wid mud and moss and some of dem wasn't.
We lived in cabins made of logs and chinked with mud mortar.
He flashed the lantern along the carefully chinked walls, the rose tints of the cedar glowing warmly back at him.
It was a large room, with the log walls neatlychinked and whitewashed.
Scattered over it, with an effort at regularity, were about forty small but neat log cottages, thatched with the long leaves of the turpentine pine, and chinked with branches of the same tree.
A great outside chimney, built either of rough stones or of small logs, coated on the inside with clay mortar and carefully chinked with the same, was built against one end of this rude house.
A photograph of a forest clearing: pathetic new furrows straggling among stumps, a clumsy log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with hay.
They reached Nels Erdstrom's at four, and with a throb she recognized the courageous venture which had lured her to Gopher Prairie: the cleared fields, furrows among stumps, a log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with dry hay.
It was surprising to see how quickly the soldiers made themselves comfortable in huts chinked with mud and roofed with split shingles.
Once it was chinked with clay, but the rains have washed out the mortar, and the wind comes in through all the crevices.
The house was built of logs, chinkedwith mud, contained two rooms about fifteen feet square, and was occupied by a colored family.
There it gave him comfort, as, the day after he had landed in New York, it chinked and thumped against him as he walked.
The little bag of money which had chinked so bravely on his hip when he had first arrived in New York city scarcely chinked at all, these days.
It was a log crib, and they chinked it with clay, and using split logs from the walls of the old shed, a puncheon floor was made.
The uncovered floor is of wide boards, worn smooth in service, chinked to keep out the blasts of winter.
Its double walls of poles were stuffed with moss, its roof chinked with blue clay, a sliding door gave ingress, and even now, with summer almost gone, an ample supply of ice remained in it.
All log cabins are much alike--a square enclosure of unhewn logs thatched with saplings andchinked with mud and moss.
De quarters whar us lived was log cabins chinked wid mud to keep out de rain and wind.
It was jus' a log house, but Marster had all dem cracks chinked tight wid red mud, and he even had one of dem franklin-back chimblies built to keep our little cabin nice and warm.
De mud was daubed 'twixt de logs to chink up de cracks, and sometimes dey chinked up cracks in de roof wid red mud.
And the domestics of the inn talked with wonder of the splendid dressing-case, with its gold and silver furniture that was spread out on the toilette table, and the bag of gold that chinked as it was taken out of the trunk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chinked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
