Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TINK'LE, v.i. [W. tincial, supra, under tingle.]

1. To make small, quick, sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink. – And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. Is. iii. The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. Dodsley. The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory. Tetzel in Milner.
2. To hear a small, sharp sound. And his ears tinkled, and his color fled. Dryden.