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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell.
  2. v. Informal To urinate.
  3. v. To cause to tinkle.
  4. v. To signal or call by tinkling.
  5. n. A light, clear metallic sound or a sound suggestive of it.
  6. n. An act or instance of tinkling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make or give forth a succession of little clinking sounds; clink or tink repeatedly or continuously.
  2. To tingle.
  3. To cause to clink or tink; jingle; ring.
  4. To affect by tinking sounds; lead or draw by ringing or jingling.
  5. To cause to ring or resound.
  6. n. A succession of small tinking or clinking sounds; a soft jingling noise.
  7. To tinker.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell
  2. v. to urinate.
  3. v. To cause to tinkle
  4. v. To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling
  5. n. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
  2. v. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  3. v. To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
  4. n. A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make or emit a high sound
  2. n. a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell

Etymologies

  1. Middle English tinklen, frequentative of tinken, to emit a brief metallic sound, perhaps of imitative origin.

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