&fist; Chineses was used as a plural by the contemporaries of Shakespeare and Milton.
Chink (ch&ibreve;&nsm;k), n. [OE. chine, AS. cīne fissure, chink, fr. cīnan to gape; akin to Goth. Keinan to sprout, G. keimen. Cf. Chit.] A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of a wall.
Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky.
Shines out the dewy morning star.
Macaulay.
Chink, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chinking.] To crack; to open.
Chink, v. t. 1. To cause to open in cracks or fissures.