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Entry 5 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Clink

/(klĭṉk)/ · IPA /klɪŋk/
01 v. t. To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
imp. & p. p. Clinked; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking
  1. 1.
    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.
02 v. i. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
  1. 1.
    To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
  2. 2.
    To rhyme. [Humorous].[Humorous]
03 n. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
  1. 1.
    A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
04 n. A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.
  1. 1.
    A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.[Colloq.]