[f. CHINK v.3 + -ING1.] Emission of a short sharp ringing sound.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xvi[i]. (Arb.), 192. Clinking of fetters, chinking of money.
1611. Cotgr., Clinquallerie, a chinking, clinking.
1884. Miss Braddon, Ishmael, II. ii. 42. The chinking of glasses and tea-spoons.
