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Clink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sharp sound, made by the collision of small sonorous bodies. Spenser, according to Johnson, uses the word for a knocker.

Clink [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To ring or jingle; to utter or make a small sharp sound, or a succession of such sounds, as by striking small metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

Clink [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.

Clink [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.

2. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.

3. To rhyme. [Humorous].

Clinkant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Clinquant.

Clinked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Clinker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

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.

3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.

4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.

Clinker-built [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made of clincher work.

Clinker-built [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Clinking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making a small sharp sound, or succession of sounds.

Clinking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Clinkstone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A mineral which has a slaty structure, and is generally divisible into tabular masses, usually thick, sometimes thin like those of argillite. The cross fracture is commonly splintery. Its colors are dark greenish gray, yellowish, bluish, or ash gray; and it is usually translucent at the edges, sometimes opake. It occurs in extensive masses, often composed of columnar or tabular distinct concretions, more or less regular. It is usually found among secondary rocks; sometimes resting on basalt, and covered by greenstone.

Clinkstone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.