| clink | (v) make a high sound typical of glass, Example: champagne glasses clinked to make a toast |
| clinker | (n) a hard brick used as a paving stone, Syn. clinker brick |
| clinker | (v) clear out the cinders and clinker from, Example: we clinkered the fire frequently |
| clinker | (v) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning |
| clinker-built | (adj) having overlapping hull planks, Syn. lap-strake, lap-straked, lap-streaked, clincher-built, lap-streak, Ant. carvel-built |
| chink | (n) a short light metallic sound, Syn. click, clink |
| cinder | (n) a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire, Syn. clinker |
| cinder block | (n) a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate, Syn. clinker block, breeze block, Example: cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain |
| jail | (n) a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence), Syn. slammer, jailhouse, gaol, pokey, clink, poky |
| tinkle | (v) make or emit a high sound, Syn. tink, clink, chink, Example: tinkling bells |
| Clink | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Clinked p. pr. & vb. n. Clinking. ] [ OE. clinken; akin to G. klingen, D. klinken, SW. klinga, Dan. klinge; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. Clank, Clench, Click, v. i. ] To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. [ 1913 Webster ] And let me the canakin clink. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Clink | v. i. 1. To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound. “The clinking latch.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To rhyme. [ Humorous ]. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Clink | n. A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies. “Clink and fall of swords.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Clink | n. A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England. [ Colloq. ] “I'm here in the clink.” Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Clinkant | a. See Clinquant. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Clinker | n. [ From clink; cf. D. clinker a brick which is so hard that it makes a sonorous sound, from clinken to clink. Cf. Clinkstone. ] 1. A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Clinker-built | a. (Naut.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Clinkstone | n. [ Clink + stone; -- from its sonorousness. ] (Min.) An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. [ 1913 Webster ] |
