chinkle

plural chinkles

1. nauticalA turn or kink in a rope.

present singular third person chinkles · participle present chinkling · participle past chinkled · past chinkled

1. intransitiverareTo chink or jingle.
2. transitiveTo tinkle or cause to tinkle; to produce a continued chinking sound with.

   He chinkled the coins in his pocket.

plural chinkles

1. rareA ringing sound of low volume.

   Adare rang the bell. So still was the night that now the sighing in the room had stopped and the birds had settled down again in their tree, he could hear the chinkle of the bell, tossing on its wire in the kitchen fifty yards away, downstairs.

   1937, Helen Simpson, Under Capricorn