also clinkum-clank, = CLINK-CLANK, or expressing a trochaic variety of the same sound.
1605. Tryall Chev., I. i. in Bullen, O. Pl., III. 285. Tis the tricke of most of these Sergeants, all clincum clancum.
1769. in Chambers, Scot. Songs (1829), 42. Wi’ clinkum-clankum ower their crowns, The lads began to fa’, then.
1816. J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., 175. This wonderfully poetic, clinkam clankum generation.
1856. Masson, Ess., Th. Poetry, 444. The clinkum-clankum of a bell.
1887. Stevenson, Underwoods, II. v. 89. The clinkum-clank o’ Sabbath bells.
