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tinkling
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tinkling has 1 sense
- tinkling(s = adj.all) tinkly - like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"
CIDE DICTIONARY
tinkling, n.
- A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. [1913 Webster]"Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds." [1913 Webster]
- A grackle (
Quiscalus crassirostris ) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
tinkling
change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, peal, peal ringing, pealing, ring, ringing, sounding, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling
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