- (v.i.) To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together.
- (v.i.) To give out a slight, sharp, tinkling sound.
- (v.i.) To rhyme. [Humorous].
- (n.) A slight, sharp, tinkling sound, made by the collision of sonorous bodies.
- (n.) A prison cell; a lockup; -- probably orig. the name of the noted prison in Southwark, England.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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