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ˈtankle, n.
The second element in the reduplicated tinkle-tankle, sometimes used by itself to express a less acute sound than tinkle. So ˈtankle v., ˈtankling vbl. n.
1864Webster, Tankling, a ringing noise; a tinkling. 1894Wister in Harper's Mag. Sept. 514 The flat can-like tankle of the square bell. Ibid. 518 The bell..tankled. |