chime

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chime1

▶noun

• 1 a bell or a metal bar or tube tuned and used in a set to produce melodious ringing sounds when struck.

  ■ a sound made by such an instrument.

• 2 Bell-ringing a stroke of the clapper against one or both sides of a scarcely moving bell.

▶verb

• 1 (of a bell or clock) make chimes.

• 2 (chime with) Brit. be in agreement with.

• 3 (chime in) interject a remark.

– derivatives
chimer noun.

– origin ME (in the senses ‘cymbal’ and ‘ring out’): prob. from OE cimbal (see cymbal), later interpreted as chime bell.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
chime2 (also chimb)

▶noun the projecting rim at the end of a cask.

– origin ME: prob. from an OE word rel. to Du. kim and Ger. Kimme; cf. chine3.