Clink /(klĭṉk)/

Clink

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Clinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking

  1. 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.
  2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. [Humorous]

Clink

n.
  1. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.

Clink

n.
  1. A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [Colloq.]