dial. [Altered f. TINGLE, TINKLE.]
1. intr. To tingle, thrill.
1644. R. Baillie, Lett., 2 April (Bann. Cl.), II. 154. The maine chance is in the North, for which our hearts are trinckling.
2. To tinkle, make a tinkling sound.
1827. Coleridge, in Hone’s Every-day Bk., II. 115. The noises give an impulse to the icy trees, and the woods all round the lake trinkle.
1892. Field, 28 May, 805/2. The pilot … watched her [a yacht] trinkling through the water.
