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▪ I. ting, n.1|tɪŋ|
[f. ting v.: cf. ding n.2]
a. The sound emitted by a small bell, or other resonant body, as a thin glass vessel, as the result of a single stroke; a thinner or sharper sound than that expressed by tang. Also advb., or without grammatical construction, esp. when repeated.
1602Middleton Blurt iv. ii, Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting. 1611Cotgr., Tinton,..the ting of a bell. 1677Wallis in Phil. Trans. XII. 842 A thin..Venice-glass, cracked with the..sound of a Trompet..sounding an Unison or a Consonant note to that of the Tone or Ting of the Glass. 1859Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 178 The liquid ting—ting—ting of the bell-bird. 1895Zangwill The Master ii. ix, His own turn came, announced by the sharp ting of a hand-bell. 1898G. W. E. Russell Coll. & Recoll. xxxiv. 473 The shrill ting-ting of the division-bell. 1906Daily Chron. 14 Feb. 6/7 ‘Ting’ went the bell.
b. ting-a-ling (ling), ting-a-ring, tingating (rare.), the sound of the continued ringing of a small bell, or the like. Also advb. Cf. tink-a-tink s.v. tink int. and n.
1833J. Marcet Seasons II. Spring iv. 54 The great dinner-bell went ting a ring a ring a ring. 1862C. C. Robinson Leeds Gloss. 436 ‘Ting-elin, all in’... ‘Its ommast ting-elin now’. 1879Macdonald Sir Gibbie xix, I hae naething till acquaint yer honour wi', sir, but the ting-a-ling o'tongues. 1906Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 5/1 Ting-a-ling. Telephone again. ‘Who's there?’ 1922Joyce Ulysses 734 And he so quiet and mild with his tingating zither. 1932T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 12 Telephone: Ting a ling ling. Ting a ling ling.
▪ II. ‖ ting, n.4|dɪŋ, tɪŋ|
[Chinese dĭng.]
An ancient Chinese vessel, usu. bronze, having two looped handles and three or four legs (see quots.).
1904S. W. Bushell Chinese Art I. iv. 80 The word ting is occasionally rendered ‘tripod’, but this is hardly applicable to a second not uncommon form which has a rectangular body of oblong section supported by four legs. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iii. 138 The Han dictionary Êrh ya defines the ting as a li with solid legs. 1959G. Savage Antique Collector's Handbk. 40 The ting is a bowl of hemispherical shape with three legs and two upstanding handles. 1973Genius of China 12/1 In 219 BC the Ch'in emperor tried to recover from a river the nine ting tripods on which the power of the Chou king over his feudal subordinates was said to depend.
▪ III. ting, v.|tɪŋ|
[Echoic. Cf. ping; also obs. Du. tinghe, tanghen ‘tintinare’.]
1. trans. To cause (a small bell or the like) to emit a ringing note; in quot. 1607, to try (a coin) by ringing in order to test its genuineness.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xviii. xii. (W. de W.), Wyth betynge of basynes, tyngynge & tynkynge of tymbres they [bees] ben comforted & callyd to the hyues. 1552Berks. Ch. Goods (1879) 39 A bell used to be tynged before dede corses. 1607R. C[arew] tr. Estienne's World of Wonders 131 They sticke not to ting and peize the money. 1611Cotgr., Tintiner, to ting, or toll, a bell. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Ting, to ring a small bell.
b. to ting bees, to make a ringing sound, as with a key and shovel, when bees swarm, to induce them to settle: cf. quot. 1495 in 1; also tang v.2 4, ring v.2 10 b.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. i. (1623) 3 Tinging of swarmes to make them come downe. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., ‘To ting bees’, is to collect them together, when they swarm, by the ancient music of the warming-pan and the key of the kitchen-door.
c. To announce (a person) by ‘ringing in’ (see ring v.2 7 c). rare.
1880Hardy Trumpet-Major II. xxiii. 157 ‘There, they be tinging in the passon!’ exclaimed David,..as the bells changed from chiming all three together to a quick beating of one.
2. intr. Of a bell, a metal or glass vessel, or the like: To emit a high-pitched ringing note when struck, to ring.
1562T. Phaer æneid. ix. D d j, His helmet tincgling tings. 1607Rowlands Diog. Lanth. 21 If we but heare a Bell to ting..Into a hole we straite may skippe. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. v, Bowls [began] to ting, glasses to ring. 1840[see tinging vbl. n.].
b. trans. To announce (an hour) by tinging; to ring or strike (the hour). Also ting out.
1888F. W. Robinson Youngest Miss Green III. 78 The clock..then tinged out ‘One’.
3. intr. To make a ringing sound with a bell, etc. Also to ting it.
1605R. Armin Foole upon F. (1880) 8 They tinged with a knife at the bottome of a glasse. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 492 Often tinging with a little Bell of Siluer. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. Prol. 6 There did he..ting it, ring it, tingle it, towl it. 1872T. Hardy Under Greenw. Tree v. i. II. 186 So he jist stopped to ting to 'em [bees] and shake 'em.
▪ IV. ting
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