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Definition of Clinking
1. Adjective. Like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped.
Definition of Clinking
1. Verb. (present participle of clink) ¹
2. Noun. A noise that clinks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clinking
1. clink [v] - See also: clink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinking
Literary usage of Clinking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"... while we talked on in the room where we had first mustered, and we could hear
the servants tramping up and down the back drawing-room, clinking plates, ..."
2. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... dry • And clinking spurs, Like a Centaur he speeds, Where the wild bull feeds;
... And clinking spurs, He rests awhile, With a tear and a smile, ..."
3. Letters to a Friend: Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879 by John Muir (1915)
"... wholly alone in the midst of this metallic, money-clinking crowd. And so you
are going to dwell down there, and how rosily you will write about it! ..."
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