strinkling, strenkling, vbl. n. Obs. exc. Sc. and dial.
[f. strinkle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 28580 Of hali water þe strenkling. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 479/2 Strenkelynge, or sprenkelynge, aspersio. |
2. A small quantity or amount sprinkled; also fig. a small proportion intermixed.
| 1660 H. More Myst. Godl. vii. ix. 316 He may also help himself something from those strinklings that are found in prophane Writers. Ibid. viii. xiv. §11. 427 Men whose brains were seasoned with some strinklings at least of Madness and Phrensy. 1743 R. Maxwell Sel. Trans. Soc. Impr. Agric. Scot. 83 If in the ensuing Spring, you harrow the Field, adding a strinkling of Clover..before harrowing. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words s.v., ‘A pretty strinkling of turnips,’ means a goodish plant all over the field. 1883 Almondbury & Huddersf. Gloss. s.v., Thus a congregation might consist chiefly of women, with a strinkling of men. |