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▪ I. clink, n.1|klɪŋk|
[Goes with clink v.1 Cf. Du. klink.]
1. a. A sharp abrupt ringing sound, clearer and thinner than a clank, as of small metallic bodies or glasses struck together.
c1400Destr. Troy 5853 The clynke & þe clamour claterit in þe aire. a1553Udall Royster D. iii. iii. (Arb.) 45 He will go darklyng to his graue, Neque lux, neque crux, neque mourners, neque clinke. 1562Phaër æneid viii. (R.) Yngot gaddes with clashing clinks, In blustrying forges blowne. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 234, I heard the clinke, and fall of Swords. 1781Cowper Truth 140 Duly at clink of bell to morning prayers. 1857Holland Bay Path xxviii. 347 Each drop struck the surface with a metallic, musical clink. 1859Max Müller Sc. Lang. Ser. ii. iii. 103 The lower notes are mere hums, the upper notes mere clinks.
†b. to cry clink: to emit or produce a clink, to have a response. Obs.
1607Chapman Bussy D'Ambois Plays 1873 II. 10 No man riseth by his reall merit But when it cries Clincke in his Raisers spirit. 1637W. Cartwright Royall Slave (N.), And make our hard irons cry clink in the close.
2. Mere assonance of rime; jingle.
a1716South Serm. (1717) VI. 101 The senceless, insignificant clink and sound of a few, popular misapplied Words. 1785Burns 2nd Epist. Davie v, Some idle plan O' rhymin clink. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. I. 472 Such a construction..produces a regularly returning clink in the period, which tires the ear. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 78 Some other poet's clink ‘Thetis and Tethys’.
3. a. Used imitatively of the sharp note of certain birds: hence stone-clink, provincial name for the Stonechat (Pratincola rubicola).
1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 57 Stonechat..Stone-clink. 1885St. Jas'. Gaz. 17 Aug. 6/2 The ‘clink’ of the stonechat.
b. Sc. dial. A tell-tale (Jamieson).
4. dial. A smart sharp blow. [So Du. klink.]
1722W. Hamilton Wallace 35 (Jam.) The yeomen..lighted down; The first miss'd not a clink out o'er his crown. 1820Scott Abbot xv, We must take a clink as it passes, so it is not bestowed in downright ill-will. 1881Isle of W. Gloss., Clink, a smart blow. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Clink, a smack or blow. 1888in Berksh. Gloss.
5. colloq. Sc. Money, coin, hard cash; = chink 4.
1729Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. 14 The Warld is rul'd by Asses, And the Wise are sway'd by Clink. 1789Burns Let. J. Tennant, May ye get..Monie a laugh, and monie a drink, An' aye enough o' needfu' clink. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 203 Such young ladies as were particularly beautiful..and had the clink.
6. An internal crack in a block of metal caused by uneven contraction or expansion during cooling or heating.
1925Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXI. 150 The well-known phenomena called cooling clinks or cooling cracks. 1948A. V. Jobling in H. W. Baker Mod. Workshop Technol. I. i. iv. 88 If the tension stresses reach a sufficiently high value while the inside is comparatively cold and lacking in ductility, an internal fracture or clink will result.
▪ II. clink, n.2
[The evidence appears to indicate that the name was proper to the Southwark ‘Clink’, and thence transferred elsewhere; but the converse may have been the fact. If the name was originally descriptive, various senses of clink, e.g. ‘to fasten securely’ (cf. ‘to get the clinch’, clinch n. 7), might have given rise to it. Cf. also clink n.4]
The name of a noted prison in Southwark; later used elsewhere (esp. in Devon and Cornwall) for a small and dismal prison or prison-cell, a lock-up. Now used generally for: prison, cells.
1515Barclay Egloges i. (1570) A. v/4 Then art thou clapped in the Flete or Clinke. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1464/1 He was..had to the Clinke, and after to the Counter in the Poultrie. 1575Gascoigne Herbs Wks. (1587) 171 The rest was close in clinke. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 325 Our author..was committed first to the Gatehouse in Westminster, and afterwards to the Clink in Southwark. 1761London & Environs II. 147 Clink prison in Clink Street, belongs to the liberty of the Bishop of Winchester, called the Clink liberty..It is a very dismal hole where debtors are sometimes confined. 1777Howard Prisons Eng. 380 (Plymouth Town Gaol) Two rooms for Felons..One..the Clink, seventeen feet by eight, about five feet and a half high, with a wicket in the door seven inches by five to admit light and air. 1836Marryat Japhet lviii, I was thrust into the clink, or lock-up house, as the magistrates would not meet that evening. 1863Sala Capt. Dang. I. iv. 112 A Clink, where wantons are sent to be whipped and beat hemp. 1880W. Cornw. Gloss., Clink, a small room where vagabonds and drunkards are confined. 1890Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 20 And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drink and blacking the Corporal's eye. 1906Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 4/7 Escorting erring defaulters of his own creation to clink. 1919War Slang in Athenæum 25 July 664/2 ‘Clink’, punishment cells. 1934G. B. Shaw Too True iii. 82 Soldiers that try to make storytelling do for service end in the clink. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xxi. 355 They'll only dock my pay or shove me in clink.
▪ III. clink, n.3 ? colloq.
A very small poor ale, brewed chiefly for the use of harvest labourers.
1863Sala Capt. Dang. I. ix. 266 A miserable hovel of an inn..where they ate their rye-bread and drank their sour Clink.
▪ IV. † clink, n.4 Obs. rare—1.
[Meaning and origin uncertain.
The Glossary to first ed., professedly based on Spenser's authority, explains it as ‘key-hole’; for the word in such a sense no etymology is known, and the reference to clicket is quite erroneous. Some identify the word with Du. klink, Ger. and Da. klinke, Sw. klinka, (also Fr. clinche, clenche) ‘latch of a door’. Cf. also ‘clink, a small or fine crack’. Addy Sheffield Gloss. 1888.]
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 251 Tho creeping close behind the Wickets clincke, Preuelie, he peeped out through a chinck. [E. K. Gloss., Clincke, a keyhole: Whose diminutiue is clicket, vsed of Chaucer for a key.]
▪ V. † clink, n.5 Obs. rare.
By-form of clinch.
1634Leicester in Earl Strafforde Lett. I. 224 To conclude with an Oxford Clink.
▪ VI. clink, v.1|klɪŋk|
Forms: 4 klynk(e, 4–6 clynk(e, 6–7 clinck(e, clinke, 6– clink.
[A weak vb. found, with the n. of same form, only from 14th c. Du. has a strong vb. of identical form, klinken (MDu. klincken and klinghen) ‘to sound, clink, ring, tinkle’, for which HG. has the str. klingen, OHG. chlingan, LG. klingen, EFris. klingen (klung, klungen) ‘to ring, sound’, and klinken (klunk, klunken) ‘to clink glasses’, WFris. klinckjen, klingjen. Also Sw. klinga str. (OSw. also klinga, klinka weak), Da. klinge str. ‘to sound, ring’, klinke ‘to clink glasses’. Thus there appears a double stem-form, kling-, klink-, evidently (like the Lat. and Gr. words cited under clang) of echoic origin; one of these forms was prob. a later modification (? perhaps expressing a variety of sound); the evidence appears to favour the priority of kling-. No trace of either form has yet been found in OE. (where there is a strong vb. clingan in an entirely different sense: see cling v.), and thus we cannot tell whether ME. clinken went back with the Du. to an OLG. *klinkan, or was of later adoption or origination in England. Cf. the still later clank, and its correspondence with Du. klank. The sense-development is greatly parallel to that of clank; the transition from sound to sudden action is a common one, esp. in Sc.; cf. bang, boom, bum, chop, clank, clap, pop, etc.
(Rare by-forms are clenk, clinch, cling.)]
1. a. intr. To make the sharp abrupt metallic sound described under clink n.1
c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 336 They herde a belle clynke Biforn a cors was caried to his graue. c1440Promp. Parv. 82 Clynkyn, v. clyppyn [K. clynkyn, v. chymyn]. 1513Douglas æneis ix. xiii. 67 Hys bos helm rang and soundit, Clynkand abowt hys half heddis with dyn. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 4 That metal clinketh well. 1684H. More Answer 325 That old Proverb, As the fool thinketh, so the bell clinketh. c1720Prior 2nd Hymn Callim. to Apollo Poems (1754) 244 The sever'd bars Submissive clink against their brazen Portals. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxi, Thou hear'st the village hammer clink. 1864Skeat tr. Uhland's Poems 360 Merrily clink the beakers tall.
b. intr. To ring as a report. Sc.
1825–76Jamieson s.v., ‘It gaed clinkin through the town.’
2. trans. To cause (anything) to sound in this way; to strike together (glasses or the like) so that they emit a sharp ringing sound.
c1386Chaucer Shipman's Prol. 24, I shal clynkyn [v.r. blenken, klynken] yow so mery a belle That I shal wakyn al this companye. 1600Fairfax Tasso ix. lxv. (R.), Some howle, some weepe, some clinke their iron chaines. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 71 And let me the Cannakin clinke, clinke. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 34 ⁋13 Anthea saw some sheep, and heard the wether clink his bell. 1855Thackeray Newcomes I. 9 Some wags..clinked their glasses and rapped their sticks.
3. a. intr. Of words, etc.: To jingle together, to rime.
1729Swift Direct. Birthday Song, Yet I must except the Rhine, Because it clinks to Caroline. 1785Burns 2nd Epist. Davie iv, For me, I'm on Parnassus' brink Rivin' the words to gar them clink. a1800Lloyd On Rhyme (R.), How charmingly he makes them [couplets] clink.
b. trans. To make (words or verses) jingle.
1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 25 Ye see I clink my verse wi' rhime. 1760Goldsm. Cit. W. xl, They have done nothing but clink rhymes..for years together.
4. to clink it is said in Sc. of birds uttering their notes. (Cf. clank v. 2.)
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 236 The merll, the mavys, and the nychtingale, With mery notis myrthfully furth brest, Enforsing thame quha mycht do clynk it best.
5. intr. To move with a clinking sound, made either by the feet or by articles carried or worn.
1818Scott Leg. Montrose iv, ‘Here's the fourth man coming clinking in at the yett.’ a1863Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii, They clink over the asphalte..with lacquered boots.
6. trans. ‘To beat smartly, to strike with smart blows’ (Jamieson). Cf. clink n.1 4, clank v. 7.
7. Sc.
a. Expressing quick, sharp, abrupt actions (such as produce a clinking sound; cf. clap v. IV.); e.g. clink away, to snatch away; clink down, to clap down, put down sharply; clink on, to clap on; clink up, to seize up rapidly.
Some of these may be compared with the corresponding use of clank v. 6, clink down being a sharper and less noisy act than clank down; but in most there seems to be an instinctive association with cleek, click, clitch, to clink away, clink up, being to cleek away or up, with a sudden and deft action.
1718Ramsay Christ's Kirk iii. xii, A creel bout fou of muckle steins They clinked on his back. 1791A. Wilson Eppie & Deil Poet. Wks. 85 Clootie, shapet like a burd, Flew down..And clinket Eppie's wheel awa'. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxviii, ‘Ane o' the clerks..will clink down, in black and white, as muckle as wad hang a man.’ ibid. xl, ‘When she has clinkit hersell down that way..she winna speak a word.’
b. Also intr. (for refl.)
1785Burns Holy Fair xi, Happy is that man..Wha's ain dear lass..Comes clinkin down beside him! 1858Ramsay Remin. Ser. i. (1860) 92 Before the sale cam on, in God's gude providence, she just clinkit aff. 1834Wilson Tales of Borders (1863) I. 156 Ye'll just clink down beside me.
8. To cause (metal) to fracture internally. Cf. clink n.1 6.
1929Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXIX. 291 The first ingot was undoubtedly quite extensively clinked. 1930Engineering 19 Sept. 371/2 Very high internal stresses which frequently led to transverse clinking in the centre of the ingot. 1948A. V. Jobling in H. W. Baker Mod. Workshop Technol. I. i. iv. 88 Clinking is a defect which does not result from any fault in the actual forging operation but from too rapid heating or cooling of a large mass of steel. 1953D. J. O. Brandt Manuf. Iron & Steel xxviii. 204 Ingots of steel containing over 0 · 40% carbon and alloy steel ingots are easily clinked (cracked internally).
▪ VII. clink, v.2 north. Eng. and Sc.|klɪŋk|
Also 5 cleyngk, 6 clenk.
[Northern form corresp. to clinch, clench; identical in form and sense with Du., EFris., LGer. klinken, Da. klinke, Sw. klinka.
Clink is prob. simply a later phonetic form of clenk = clench:—OE. clęnc(e)an, the change of -eng, -enk, to -ing, -ink, being usual in ME.; cf. think from OE. þencan, also stink, stench, blink, blench, bink, bench, earlier benk; also Inglish = English. But klink might be the Danish or LGer. word, and clinch a result of its action upon clench.]
trans. To clench, rivet, fix or fasten with nails or rivets. Hence clinked ppl. a.
1440[see clench v.1 1]. c1460Towneley Myst., Crucifixio 219 For to clynk and for to dryfe Therto I am fulle prest. a1568Sempill Ballates (1872) 230 A littill Fleminge berge Off clenkett wark. 1583Stanyhurst Poems (Arb.) 138 An armoure, With gould ritchlye shrined, wheare scaals be ful horriblye clincked. c1768Ross Rock & Wee Pickle Tow (Jam.), A pair of grey hoggers well clinked benew. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §51 Double plank, cross and cross, and clinked together. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxiv, Yonder gay Chief..will soon find on his shoulders with what sort of blows I clink my rivets! |