[f. LINK v.1 + -ING2.] That links or joins together.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), II. II. iii. 161. In linking circles wide extending.
1901. Blackwood’s Mag., June, 845/2. There is a linking sonnet, 127, between the series addressed to Herbert and the shorter series … to the Dark Lady.
Hence † Linkingly adv., so as to be linked or connected.
1635. Person, Varieties, I. vi. 18. Ptolomee his opinion is more true, that the earth and waters, mutually and linkingly embrace one another and make up one Globe.
