Definitions
make or emit a high sound
Word origin
From Middle English tinken, possibly from Old English *tincian, equivalent to tin + -k. Compare Dutch tinken (“to tink, toll, strike the bells of a clock”), German Low German tinken (“to tink”). Compare also English ting.
Used in a sentence
“Jimmy heard the bells tink.”
“Stanley knitted when he should have purled and swore, tinking the knitting back to fix the flaw.”
“If the stitch you need to fix is on the last or previous row, a bit of unknitting, or “tinking” as it is known by some knitters, is all that is needed to get back to the point where you can mend your mistake.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Tiny metallic sound”4 letters
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