Link

n. [Sw. länk, ring of a chain, Dan. länke, Icel. hleclr, chain, Ger. gelenk, joint, link, ring of a chain, from Ger. lenken, to bend.]

1. A single ring or division of a chain; sometimes, a chain. “Strong links of iron.” Shak.
2. Any thing doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horse-hair. Mortimer.
3. (Mech.) Any intermediate rod or piece transmitting motive power from one part of a machine to another.
4. (Steam-eng.) A link-motion.
5. Any thing connecting or binding together; hence, any constituent part of a connected series.

Love, the common link, the new creation crowned. Dryden. The associating link is the same in each instance. Wordsworth.

6. (pl.) Sausages;—so called from being made in a continuous chain. [Local and colloq. Eng. and U. S.]
7. (pl.) The windings of a river, and the ground lying along them. [Scot.] W. Scott.
8. (Surveying.) The length of one joint of Gunter’s chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.

Link-work, mechanism in which links, or intermediate connecting pieces, are employed to transmit motion from one part to another.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. LINKED (lĭŋkt); p. pr. & vb. n. LINKING.]

1. To complicate. Johnson.
2. To unite or connect by means of something intervening. “And creature linked to creature, man to man.” Pope.

Link towns to towns by avenues of oak. Pope.