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Tinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make small quick sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink.

2. --And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1 . Isaiah 3:16 .

3. The sprightly horse

4. Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.

5. The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory.

6. To hear a small sharp sound.

7. And his ears tinkled, and his color fled.

Tinkle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cause to clink or make sharp quick sounds.

Tinkle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The common guillemot.

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

Tinkle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.

2. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.

Tinkle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.

Tinkled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tinkler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913