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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

babble, bump, change ringing, chat, chatter, chime, chiming, chink, clack, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, click, clink, clop, clump, clunk, crump, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, dull thud, flick, flump, gab, gong, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, knell, knelling, pad, pat, patter, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pitapat, pitter-patter, plink, plump, plunk, pop, prattle, rap, rattle, ring, ring changes, ringing, sound, sound a knell, tap, thud, thump, tick, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, tunk, yak

Dictionary Results for tinkle:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

tinkle
    n 1: a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell [syn:
         ting, tinkle]
    v 1: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle,
         tink, clink, chink]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tinkershire \Tink"er*shire\, Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n. (Zool.)
   The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. i. [Freq. of tink. See Tink, Tingle.]
   1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a
      piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
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            As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. --1 Cor.
                                                  xiii. 1.
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            The sprightly horse
            Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. --Dodsley.
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   2. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
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            And his ears tinkled, and the color fled. --Dryden.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tinkle \Tin"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinkled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Tinkling.]
   To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tinkle \Tin"kle\, n.
   A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.
   --Cowper.
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