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Webster 1913 Edition

Clink

Clink

(klĭṉk)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Clinked
(klĭṉkt)
;
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
,
Verb.
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
.
Shakespeare

Clink

(klĭṉk)
,
Verb.
I.
1.
To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
“The clinking latch.”
Tennyson.
2.
To rhyme.
[Humorous]
.
Cowper.

Clink

,
Noun.
A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
“
Clink
and fall of swords.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Clink

CLINK

,
Verb.
T.
To ring or jingle; to utter or make a small sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking small metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

CLINK

,
Noun.
A sharp sound, made by the collision of small sonorous bodies. Spenser, according to Johnson, uses the word for a knocker.

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