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Wish I knew what they were chinning about—they’re so mightily in earnest.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Phil pulled himself up as if he were chinning the bar, though in this case he chinned it only once.

From The Circus Boys on the Mississippi : or, Afloat with the Big Show on the Big River by Darlington, Edgar B. P.