▪ I. trinkle, v.1 Sc. and dial.
(ˈtrɪŋk(ə)l)
Also 5–6 trynkel, 6 -kle; β. 6 tringle, thringle.
[app. a nasalized modification of trickle v.1]
1. intr. To trickle, to flow or fall drop by drop. Also fig. Hence ˈtrinkling ppl. a.
| 14.. Chaucer's Sompn. T. 156 (Camb. MS. Gg. 4. 27) With manye a tere trynkelynge [v.rr. trilling, triklyng] on myn cheke. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. v. 58 With teris trynkeland our his chekis and face. a 1600 Montgomerie Sonn. lv. 10 My trinkling teirs, the presents I propyne. 1687 Macfarlane Geog. Collect. (S.H.S.) III. 145 Burns..are seen trinkling down the green Hills. 1794 Burns ‘O Mally's meek’ 14 Her yellow hair..Comes trinkling down her swan-white neck. 1828 Craven Gloss., Trinkle, to trickle. 1832 Motherwell Jeanie Morrison ix, Tears trinkled doun your cheek. |
| β 1513 Douglas æneis vi. xi. 14 The teris thringling [ed. 1553 trigling] furth our his chekis ran. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) II. 558 So mony teir come tringland fra his ene. |
2. trans. To cause to trickle; to shed (tears).
| a 1605 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (revision) iv, Quhairon Apollos paramouris Had trinklit mony a teir. |
Hence ˈtrinkle n. Sc. = trickle n. 1.
| 1887 Jamieson's Dict., Suppl., Trinkle, a drop, series of drops, falling or fallen, as from a leaking vessel or a spout; a continuous dropping, or a slender thread of falling liquid;..a trinkle of blood. 1905 in Eng. Dial. Dict. |
▪ II. ˈtrinkle, v.2 dial.
[Altered f. tingle, tinkle.]
1. intr. To tingle, thrill.
| 1644 R. Baillie Lett. 2 Apr. (Bann. Cl.) II. 154 The maine chance is in the North, for which our hearts are trinckling. |
2. To tinkle, make a tinkling sound.
| 1827 Coleridge in Hone's Every-day Bk. II. 115 The noises give an impulse to the icy trees, and the woods all round the lake trinkle. 1892 Field 28 May 805/2 The pilot..watched her [a yacht] trinkling through the water. |
▪ III. † ˈtrinkle, v.3 Obs.
Also 7 -ckle, 8 -cle.
[app. orig. an alteration (erroneous or intentional) of trinket v.1]
intr. To treat secretly or in an underhand way, intrigue (with); = trinket v.1
| 1672 Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 310 Others..have made it their business to trinkle with the Members of Parliament, for obstructing it. 1677 Sec. Packet Advices to Men of Shaftesb. 28 No Temporal Lordships must look to thrive by trinkling with them, unless they will truckle to 'em too. 1683 Temple Mem. Wks. 1731 I. 394 They were suspected to have trinkled at least with Holland about raising Seditions, and perhaps Insurrections in England. 1688 Vox Cleri pro Rege To Rdr., Let her [the Church] then take heed how she trinckles with the Crown, and be afraid of bringing down the Royal Thunder upon her own Head. |
b. trans. ? To provoke, incite.
| 1685 Cotton tr. Montaigne III. 180 We have need to be trinckled and tickled by some such niping incitation as this. 1705 Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. Wks. 1716 III. 91 Can you blame them therefore, by all Arts, to trinkle a Popishly⁓affected Prince..or some silly well-meaning Bigot, to draw his Weapon? Ibid. iii. 180 That such Wretches..would trincle the Tackers, and Priest-ridden Bigots, to endeavour to exclude all other English-Men from their Liberties. |