Tinkling
['tɪŋklɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; 'sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal' .
Typist: Montague--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tinkle
(n.) A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.
(n.) A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.
Typist: Rowland
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tinkle, jingle, jingling, clinking, tintinnabulation, ringing.
Edited by Hattie
Examples
- Warned of a visitor by the tinkling bell at the shop-door, Mrs Plornish came out of Happy Cottage to see who it might be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I heard the dull tinkling of a piano at a distance, accompanied by the intermittent knocking of a hammer nearer at hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There they were overtaken by the sledge, that came tinkling through the silence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The harp with which David stirred the dead soul of Saul was the prototype of the sweet clavichord, the romantic virginal, the tinkling harpsichord, and the grand piano. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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