| 1. | to make or cause to make a light, sharp, ringing sound: The coins clinked together. He clinked the fork against a glass. |
| 2. | a clinking sound. |
| 3. | Metallurgy. a small crack in a steel ingot resulting from uneven expanding or contracting. |
| 4. | a pointed steel bar for breaking up road surfaces. |
| 5. | Archaic. a rhyme; jingle. |
