Clink
Clink (klink) , transitive verb
[Old English clinken; akin to German klingen, Dutch klinken, SW. klinga, Danish klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Compare Clank, Clench, Click, v. i.]
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.
Clink (klink) , intransitive verb
1.
To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
The clinking latch.
2.
To rhyme. [Humorous]. — Cowper
Clink , noun
A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
Clink and fall of swords.
Clink (klink) , noun
A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [Colloquial]
I'm here in the clink.