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Tinkling

Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinkling.] To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

Tinkling

Tinkling \Tin"kling\, n.

  1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.

    Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
    --Gray.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A grackle ( Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.

Wiktionary
tinkling
  1. One that tinkles. n. 1 A tinkle; a tinkling sound. 2 The grackle. v

  2. (present participle of tinkle English)

WordNet
tinkling

adj. like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" [syn: tinkly]

Usage examples of "tinkling".

The alchemist thoughtfully stroked his beard, setting the bells tinkling.

Rawnie coughed again, her body shaking, her bangles tinkling and jangling.

The burn, small with the summer drought, made a far-away tinkling, the sweet scents of pine and fern were about him, the dense boskage where it met the sky had in the dark a sharp marmoreal outline.

The hoop was fastened with straps to his shoulders and around the edge of the circler sat three hooded falcons fitted with tinkling bells.

Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.

Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hardhats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and ruling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.

Millions and billions of purples and yellows and greens and licorice and grape and raspberry and mint and round and smooth and crunchy outside and soft-mealy inside and sugary and bouncing jouncing tumbling clittering clattering skittering fell on the heads and shoulders and hard-hats and carapaces of the Timkin workers, tinkling on the slidewalk and bouncing away and rolling about underfoot and filling the sky on their way down with all the colors of joy and childhood and holidays, coming down in a steady rain, a solid wash, a torrent of color and sweetness out of the sky from above, and entering a universe of sanity and metronomic order with quite-mad coocoo newness.

Lo, they dight the feast in Godhome, and fair are the tables spread, Late come, but well-beloved is every war-worn head, And the God-folk and the Fathers, as these cross the tinkling bridge, Crowd round and crave for stories of the Battle on the Ridge.

There followed a rolling as of kettledrums, a booming and clanking, basins struck together, a gong rang out, and the end of it all was a tinkling, transitory, tragically cacophonous finale.

They rode along the village street, that still seemed asleep at this early hour, though the stream that flowed down from Paradise Hill was tinkling merrily beneath the little bridges before each garden gate, and through the lych gate and up through the churchyard.

Its voice was high and bright and echoed through the shrine like tinkling bells rung by Pika priests during a holy ceremony.

The Ranz des Vaches, and the tinkling of cattle bells, continue for some time after the rising of the curtain.

I could see there was no chance on earth of its being intercepted, my hands were reaching out for the barrel of cider on the trestle by my side, and the tinkling of the shattered ampoule was still echoing in shocked silence in that tiny little room when I smashed down the barrel with all the strength of my arms and body exactly on the spot where the glass had made contact.

Loud cries, gay laughter, snatches of sweet song, The tinkling fountains set in gardens cool About the pillared palaces, and blent With trickling of the conduits in the squares, The noisy teams within the narrow streets,-- All these the stranger heard and did not hear, While ringing bells pealed out above the town, And calm gray twilight skies stretched over it.

Nerrity some questions and guided her off to a distant sofa, followed by her bullish husband with his tinkling glass.