Elope, then set out to get ring (9)
I believe the answer is:
telephone
'ring' is the definition.
(I know that ring can be written as telephone)
'elope then set out' is the wordplay.
'set out' indicates an anagram.
'elope'+'then'='elopethen'
'elopethen' anagrammed gives 'TELEPHONE'.
'to get' is the link.
(Other definitions for telephone that I've seen before include "communicator" , "Electronic sound equipment" , "Transmitter of spoken words" , "Book with an alphabetical list of subscribers and numbers" , "Worldwide system of communication" .)