tinkling

noun

1. A tinkle; a tinkling sound.

   “The merry piano tinklings were gone.”

2. (Jamaica)The Greater Antillean Grackle, Quiscalus niger.
3. The action of the verb to tinkle

adj

1. (not-comparable)That tinkles.

   “"A tinkling piano in the next apartment, / Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant, / A fairground's painted swings... / These foolish things remind me of you.”

   “American Christians, you may master the intricacies of the English language and you may possess the eloquence of articulate speech; but even though you speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, you are like sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.”

2. (not-comparable, obsolete)That works as a tinker

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of tinkle