Chinning [verb]

Say, broke in Mr. Hooker suddenly, while were chinning here, weve forgotten something.

He had gotten Polly in a corner and was chinning the ear off of her.

He raised himself by chinning up to the window ledge and got a bird's eye view of the situation at a glance.

And as soon as Frank had finished chinning with Mother Powers, and had gone, she'd go back and finish her churning.

Amid encouraging cries and various criticisms, the “chinning” went on until Gus Coulter had pulled himself up twelve times.

Simply because I couldn't stand the chinning I'd get from my classmates.

Unless, he added as an afterthought, unless you came down the back stairs, when I was chinning with Simond.

He continued to pitch coolly and deliberately, for all the yelling of the Rockland crowd and chinning of the coachers.

But here I am chinning away when you want to get in and warm up and tackle the grub.

If you stand up there chinning much longer, Perk, somebody'll come.