Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GIN'GLE, or JIN'GLE, v.i. [In Pers. zangl is a little bell. In Ch. and Syr. זגא is the same. Qu. its alliance to chink and jangle.]

1. To make a sharp clattering sound; to ring, as a little bell, or as small pieces of sonorous metal; as, gingling half-pence. Gay.
2. To utter affected or chiming sounds in periods or cadence. Johnson.