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Clink   /klɪŋk/   Listen
noun
Clink  n.  A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords."


Clink  n.  A prison cell; a lockup; probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. (Colloq.) "I'm here in the clink."


verb
Clink  v. t.  (past & past part. clinked; pres. part. clinking)  To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. "And let me the canakin clink."


Clink  v. i.  
1.
To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The clinking latch."
2.
To rhyme. (Humorous).





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"Clink" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hoarse roar of the river and the sharp crash and crackle of stream-driven ice, but by and bye the worn-out man started as he caught another faint sound which suggested the clink of a displaced stone. His hands closed hard upon the rifle, but he sat very still, listening with strained attention until he heard the sound again. Then a thrill ran through him, for he was quite certain of its meaning. A stone had rolled over higher up the gorge, and he rose ...
— Hawtrey's Deputy • Harold Bindloss
... Parnassus' brink, Rivin' the words to gar them clink; Whyles daez't wi' love, whyles daez't wi' drink, Wi' jads or masons; An' whyles, but ay owre late, ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... fall into the river with a sounding splash. Yells signaled the surprise and alarm caused by this unexpected incident. The Indian frantically swam to the shore. Whereupon the champion of the stranger in a strange land lifted a bag, which gave forth a musical clink of steel, and throwing it with the camp articles on the grassy bench, he extended ...
— The Last of the Plainsmen • Zane Grey
... this night stumbling. And the hoofs of the little horse made on the hard road more noise than could be made by men beating with hammers upon brazen cylinders. The correspondent glanced continually up at the crags. From the other side he could sometimes hear the metallic clink of water deep down in a glen. For the first time in his life he seriously opened the flap of his holster and let his fingers remain on the handle of his revolver. From just in front of him he could hear the chattering of the dragoman's teeth which no ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane
... filled the store, all talking at once, rapidly and loudly. Here and there we could distinguish a snatch of conversation, a word, a phrase, now and then even a whole sentence above the rest. There was the clink of glasses. I could hear the rattle of dice on a bare table, and an oath. A cork ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve


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