clinking

English

Verb

clinking

1. present participle and gerund of clink

Noun

clinking (plural clinkings)

1. A noise that clinks.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 205:

     A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head.

Derived terms

• clinkingly