clinking
English edit
Verb edit
clinking
- present participle and gerund of clink
Noun edit
clinking (plural clinkings)
- 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.