clink

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

clink, v. t. [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."  [1913 Webster]

clink, v. i. 

•  To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.  Tennyson.  [1913 Webster]
•  To rhyme. [Humorous].  Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

clink, n. 

 A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

clink, n. 

 A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.  Kipling.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

clink, n. & v.
--n. a sharp ringing sound.
--v.
1 intr. make a clink.
2 tr. cause (glasses etc.) to clink.

clink, n. (often prec. by in) sl. prison.

Etymology

16th c.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

clink

Resonance

VB resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate, ring, jingle, gingle, chink, clink, tink, tinkle, chime, gurgle, plash, goggle, echo, ring in the ear.

Stridor

VB creak, grate, jar, burr, pipe, twang, jangle, clank, clink, scream, yelp, buzz, set the teeth on edge, corcher les oreilles, pierce the ears, split the ears, split the head, offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar upon the ear.