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Tinkle   /tˈɪŋkəl/   Listen
verb
Tinkle  v. t.  (past & past part. tinkled; pres. part. tinkling)  To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.


Tinkle  v. i.  
1.
To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink. "As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." "The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells."
2.
To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound. "And his ears tinkled, and the color fled."


noun
Tinkle, Tinkershire  n.  (Zool.) The common guillemot. (Prov. Eng.)


Tinkle  n.  A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.





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"Tinkle" Quotes from Famous Books



... orang-utans ... pagodas and palaces ... shaven-headed priests in yellow robes ... flaming fire-trees ... the fragrance of frangipani ... green jungle and steaming tropic rivers ... white moonlight on the long white beaches ... the throb of war-drums and the tinkle of wind-blown temple-bells.... ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell
... in golden belts, or rings, which, descending from above the ankle, compressed the foot in various parts, and partly in shells and little jingling chains, which depended so as to strike against clappers fixed into the metallic belts. The pleasant tinkle of the golden belts in collision, the chains rattling, and the melodious chime of little silver ankle-bells, keeping time with the motions of the foot, made an accompaniment so agreeable to female ...
— Theological Essays and Other Papers v2 • Thomas de Quincey
... Cromarty at all, refer to its "Dropping Cave" as a marvellous marble-producing cavern; and this "Dropping Cave" is but one of many that look out upon the sea from the precipices of the southern Sutor, in whose dark recesses the drops ever tinkle, and the stony ceilings ever grow. The wonder could not have been deemed a great or very rare one by a man like the late Sir George Mackenzie of Coul, well known from his travels in Iceland, and his experiments on the inflammability of the diamond; ...
— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller
... slowly and silently, over a plain knee-deep in snow. About half-way across a tinkle of bells is heard, clear and musical, in the distance. Presently a large caravan looms out of the dusk—fifty or sixty camels and half a dozen men. The latter exchange a cheery "Good night" with my guide. Slowly the ungainly, ...
— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt
... while Mollie was clapping her hands and Buck was giving out shrill yells of encouragement. At the next tilt the Hon. Sam had his watch in his hand and when he saw the Discarded digging in his spurs he began to smile and he was looking at his watch when the little tinkle in front told him that the course ...
— A Knight of the Cumberland • John Fox Jr.


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