clinking

English

Verb

clinking

present participle and gerund of clink

Noun

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.

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