Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A tinkling.
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- noun obsolete A
tinkling .
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Examples
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If they have hung on to the old farmstead, with its huckleberry pasture and cowbells tankling homeward at sunset and a bright brown brook cascading down over ledges of rock into a swimming hole, then again your problem has possible solutions.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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Now he climbed down from his seat, all his pipes _tinkling_ and _tankling_ as he moved, and gave her a mocking salute, quite as if he knew her -- yet without removing the tobacco-pipe from between his lips, or the greasy cap from his hair.
The Poor Little Rich Girl Eleanor Gates 1913
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