clink

Definitions

1. 1.To give out a slight, sharp, thinkling sound. "The clinking latch." Tennyson.
2. 2.To rhyme. [Humorous]. Cowper.
3. 3.A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. "Clink and fall of swords." Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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