? Obs. rare. [Echoic; cf. TINK, TWANK.] intr. To make a light clear abrupt ringing sound; to clink, chink. Also of a bird (intr. and trans.), to utter, or utter with, a shrill metallic note.
a. 1529. Skelton, Col. Cloute, 493. And wrest vp my harpe With sharpe twynkyng trebelles, Agaynst all suche rebelles.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., XXI. 548. A swallow … Twinks out her scatter’d voice in accents shrill.
1674. Flavel, Medit. Birds, ii., in Husb. Spiritualized, App. 238. A whole quire of Birds chirping and twinking together.
