rare. Forms: 4 twynkel, 6 twynkle, 6– twinkle. [Echoic; cf. TINKLE v.1] intr. = TINKLE v.1 2, 3. Hence Twinkling vbl. sb.

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13[?].  K. Alis., 2572. Mury is the twynkelyng [Land MS. touchyng] of the harpour.

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1523.  Skelton, Garl. Laurel, 687. There Cintheus sat twynklyng vpon his harpe stringis.

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1575.  Laneham, Lett. (1871), 61. My wanton warblz, my running, my tyming, my tuning, and my twynkling.

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1683.  Pettus, Fleta Min., I. (1686), 48. When the Grains of such two tryals have twinkled, fresh and clean, then take the Copper out of the oven.

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1907.  H. Wyndham, Flare of Footlights, i. An electric bell twinkled warningly…, and there was a general move towards the stalls and circle.

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