[f. CLINK v.1 + -ER.]

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  1.  He who or that which clinks.

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  2.  spec. a. pl. Fetters (slang). b. A kind of West Indian cricket: see quot.

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c. 1690.  B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Clinkers, the Irons Felons wear in Gaols.

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1750.  G. Hughes, Barbadoes, 86. The Clinker, or Gully-Bell … is of the Cricket kind, and derives its name from the tinkling noise it makes at night.

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  3.  Comb. clinker-bell, dial.

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1847–78.  Halliwell, Clinker-bell, an icicle.

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1888.  Pulman, Rustic Sk., in Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Jack Vrost an’ the clinker-bells all be a-past.

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