What is "tinger"

Usage examples of "tinger".

He tingered one of the snapshots of his eightyear-old son and laid it upon another, like a man playing patience.

We mounted accordingly, but the magistrate and I tingered for a few moments to observe the curiosity with which the natives examined the head of the kangaroo, which had been pierced by the ball from my fowling-piece.

Gripping a knob with the tingers and tumb of his left foot, he swung way out to grab a second handhold and managed to lower himself to another ledge.