Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clinked
   (kl[i^][ng]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.
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         And let me the canakin clink.            --Shak.
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	Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), v. i.
   1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. "The clinking
      latch." --Tennyson.
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   2. To rhyme. [Humorous]. --Cowper.
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	Clink \Clink\, n.
   A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of
   sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." --Shak.
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	Clink \Clink\ (kl[i^][ng]k), 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.
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	clink
     n 1: a short light metallic sound [syn: chink, click]
     2: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in
        the lawful custody of the government (either accused
        persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a
        sentence) [syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, slammer]
     v 1: make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses
          clinked to make a toast"
     2: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle,
        tink, chink]

	

	96 Moby Thesaurus words for "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