Clink

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clinked}
     (kl[i^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Clinking}.] [OE. clinken;
     akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge;
     prob. of imitative origin. Cf. {Clank}, {Clench}, {Click}, v.
     i.]
     To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by


     striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
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           And let me the canakin clink.            --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. i.
     1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The clinking
        latch." --Tennyson.
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     2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. --Cowper.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clink \Clink\, n.
     A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of
     sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), n.
     A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the
     noted prison in Southwark, England. [Colloq.] "I'm here in
     the clink." --Kipling.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clink
       n 1: a short light metallic sound [syn: {chink}, {click}]
       2: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in
          the lawful custody of the government (either accused
          persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a
          sentence) [syn: {jail}, {jailhouse}, {gaol}, {slammer}]
       v 1: make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses
            clinked to make a toast"
       2: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: {tinkle},
          {tink}, {chink}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "clink":
     alliteration, assonance, blank verse, bump, calaboose, can,
     change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, chokey, clang, clanging,
     clangor, clank, clanking, click, clop, clump, clunk, consonance,
     cooler, coop, crambo, crump, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging,
     dingle, dong, donging, double rhyme, dull thud, eye rhyme, flick,
     flump, gong, hoosegow, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle,
     jingling, jug, knell, knelling, lockup, near rhyme, pad,
     paronomasia, pat, patter, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pitapat,
     pitter-patter, plump, plunk, pokey, pop, pun, quod, rap, rhyme,
     rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhyming dictionary, ring, ring changes,
     ringing, single rhyme, slammer, slant rhyme, sound, sound a knell,
     stir, tail rhyme, tap, thud, thump, tick, ting, ting-a-ling,
     tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate,
     toll, tolling, tunk, unrhymed poetry