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tinkling

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1. tinkling - Noun

2. tinkling - Adjective

3. tinkling - Verb

5. tinkling - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Tinkle

A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.

A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature. Henry David Thoreau

For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Francis Bacon

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and yet had no love I were even as the sounding brass or as a tinkling cymbal. William Tyndale

Directing an austere look at Tubby's receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher. P. G. Wodehouse

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. George Orwell

Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love. Jack Bruce

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