OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 31067

clink

/klɪŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
entrechocamiento
The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now…
You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 31068

clink

/klɪŋk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
entrechocar
To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
The broken sheds look'd sad and strange, / Unlifted was the clinking latch, / Weeded and worn the ancient thatch / upon the lonely moated grange.
The hammers clinked on the stone all night.