Definition of Clnk
Clink (kl&ibreve;&nsm;k), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Clinked
(kl&ibreve;&nsm;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.
And let me the canakin clink.
Shak.
Clink (kl&ibreve;&nsm;k), v. i.
1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling
sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.
2. To rhyme. [Humorous].
Cowper.
Clink, n. A slight, sharp,
tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
"Clink and fall of swords." Shak.
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."
Kipling.
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."
Kipling.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
CLINK. A place in the Borough of Southwark, formerly
privileged from arrests; and inhabited by lawless vagabonds
of every denomination, called, from the place of
their residence, clinkers. Also a gaol, from the clinking
of the prisoners' chains or fetters: he is gone to clink.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
- (slang) Jail or prison, after the Clink prison in Southwark, London.
If he keeps doing things like that, he's sure to end up in the clink.
- Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
- To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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