v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clinked 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And let me the canakin clink. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. “The clinking latch.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rhyme. [ Humorous ]. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. “Clink and fall of swords.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ]

a. See Clinquant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone. ] 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Clink + stone; -- from its sonorousness. ] (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. [ 1913 Webster ]