sb. The second element in the reduplicated TINKLE-TANKLE, sometimes used by itself to express a less acute sound than TINKLE. So Tankle v., Tankling vbl. sb.
1856. J. B. Jones, War-path (1865), xvi. 220. I haven’t yit heard the first tankle of his bell!
1864. Webster, Tankling, a ringing noise; a tinkling.
1894. Wister, in Harper’s Mag., Sept., 514. The flat can-like tankle of the square bell. Ibid., 518. The bell … tankled.
