What is "tinglers"

Usage examples of "tinglers".

Laid out on it was an assortment of weapons: swords, tinglers, curdlers, vibro-blades.

Each man got a touch apiece at both weapons, and then the tinglers were in their hands and they were on their way back to their principals.

Both would have declared themselves satisfied that they had examined both weapons in detail and made perfect free choice of the tinglers they held.

When he turned away again, there were two tinglers lying on the bench in front, one of them Villiers’, the other an exchange.