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trinkle

American  
[tringk-uhl] / ˈtrɪŋk əl /

verb (used without object)

trinkled, trinkling
  1. Dialect. to trickle.


noun

  • trinkles
    plural
  1. Dialect. trickle.

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But amid the coronavirus lockdown, traffic slowed to a trinkle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2020

He heard the trinkle of water below, and was satisfied that there was a succession of canyons leading to the plain below, in which case descent would be comparatively easy.

From Boy Scouts in Mexico; or on Guard with Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

And there he trinkled and trilled a tune— "My Love, so Fair, Tans in the Moon!"

From Riley Child-Rhymes by James Whitcomb Riley

Ay, ay, dear Jeanie Morrison, Tears trinkled down your cheek, Like dew-beads on a rose, yet nane Had ony power to speak!

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

And there he trinkled and trilled a tune—, "My Love, so Fair, Tans in the Moon!"

From Afterwhiles by James Whitcomb Riley

Ay, ay, dear Jeanie Morrison, Tears trinkled doun your cheek, Like dew-beads on a rose, yet nane Had ony power to speak!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Her yellow hair, beyond compare,   Comes trinkling down her swan-white neck; And her two eyes, like stars in skies,   Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck.

From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Serious as the situation was, with the water trinkling in over the stern of the motor boat, the boys grinned at each other at the fright of the boy.

From The River Motor Boat Boys on the Mississippi On the Trail to the Gulf by Harry Gordon

Her yellow hair, beyond compare, Comes trinkling down her swan-white neck, And her two eyes, like stars in skies, Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Her yellow hair, beyond compare, Comes trinkling down her swan-white neck; And her two eyes, like stars in skies, Would keep a sinking ship frae wreck.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

The lid o' the coffin he opened up,25 The linens he faulded doun; And ae he kiss'd her pale, pale lips, And the tears cam trinkling doun.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various

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