From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tinkle \Tin"kle\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tinkled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tinkling}.] To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles.
Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. --Gray.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A grackle ({Quiscalus crassirostris}) native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" [syn: {tinkly}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "tinkling": change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, clink, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong, dinging, dingle, donging, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, peal, peal ringing, pealing, ring, ringing, sounding, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinnitus, tintinnabular, tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll, tolling
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