TINKLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tinkling mean? 

• TINKLING (adjective)
  The adjective TINKLING has 1 sense:

1. like the short high ringing sound of a small bell

  Familiarity information: TINKLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TINKLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Like the short high ringing sound of a small bell

Synonyms:

tinkling; tinkly

Context example:

sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal

Similar:

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

 Context examples 

Then it was that Martin wore his overcoat down into Oakland, and came back without it, but with five dollars tinkling in his pocket.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“Nor can I marvel at that,” said she, with a little tinkling laugh.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her mother wished her to learn music; and Catherine was sure she should like it, for she was very fond of tinkling the keys of the old forlorn spinnet; so, at eight years old she began.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

As Meg went rustling after, with her long skirts trailing, her earrings tinkling, her curls waving, and her heart beating, she felt as if her fun had really begun at last, for the mirror had plainly told her that she was 'a little beauty'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He emptied the hundred gold pieces into her lap in a glinting, tinkling stream.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Next instant, however, his blade had slipped into the fatal notch, there was a sharp cracking sound with a tinkling upon the ground, and he found a splintered piece of steel fifteen inches long was all that remained to him of his weapon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Like silver, he thought to himself, like tinkling silver bells; and on the instant, and for an instant, he was transported to a far land, where under pink cherry blossoms, he smoked a cigarette and listened to the bells of the peaked pagoda calling straw-sandalled devotees to worship.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The hulk of an ancient wreck burned with blue fires, in the light of which danced the hula dancers to the barbaric love- calls of the singers, who chanted to tinkling ukuleles and rumbling tom- toms.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Baldly as he had stated it, in his eyes was a rich vision of that hot, starry night at Salina Cruz, the white strip of beach, the lights of the sugar steamers in the harbor, the voices of the drunken sailors in the distance, the jostling stevedores, the flaming passion in the Mexican's face, the glint of the beast-eyes in the starlight, the sting of the steel in his neck, and the rush of blood, the crowd and the cries, the two bodies, his and the Mexican's, locked together, rolling over and over and tearing up the sand, and from away off somewhere the mellow tinkling of a guitar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)