winkle(v = verb.weather) scintillate, twinkle - emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"

is one way to beam, shine

Sample sentence:
Something ----s

winkle(v = verb.perception) blink, flash, twinkle, wink - gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"

is one way to radiate

Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

winkle(v = verb.contact) winkle out - remove or displace from a position; Array

is one way to bring out, get out

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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CIDE DICTIONARY

winkle, n. [AS. wincle.].

Any periwinkle. [1913 Webster]

" These are large mollusks which often destroy large numbers of oysters by drilling their shells and sucking their blood." [1913 Webster]

Sting winkle, a European spinose marine shell (Murex erinaceus). See Illust. of Murex.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

winkle, n. & v.
--n. any edible marine gastropod mollusc of the genus Littorina; a periwinkle.
--v.tr. (foll. by out) esp. Brit. extract or eject (winkled the information out of them).

Idiom

winkle-picker sl. a shoe with a long pointed toe.

Derivative

winkler n.

Etymology

abbr. of PERIWINKLE(2): cf. WIG(1)

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