Clink

klingk, n. a ringing sound made by the striking together of sounding bodies: jingle.— v.t. to cause to make a ringing sound.— v.i. to ring or jingle: to go with a clinking sound.— n. Clink′er , the name given to the scales or globules of black oxide of iron, obtained from red-hot iron under the blows of a hammer: the slags of iron furnaces: the cindery-like ma es which form the crust of some lava-flows.— adj. Clink′er-built , made of planks which overlap each other below (as distinguished from carvel-built) and are fastened together with clinched nails.— n. Clink′stone , a greenish-gray or brownish compact, or very finely crystalline igneous rock, splitting into slabs, which give a metallic clink when struck by a hammer. [A form of Click and Clank .]