[Echoic. Cf. PING; also obs. Du. tinghe, tanghen ‘tintinare.’]
1. trans. To cause (a small bell or the like) to emit a ringing note; in quot. 1607, to try (a coin) by ringing in order to test its genuineness.
1495. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xii. (W. de W.). Wyth betynge of basynes, tyngynge & tynkynge of tymbres they [bees] ben comforted & callyd to the hyues.
1552. Berks. Ch. Goods (1879), 39. A bell used to be tynged before dede corses.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. Estienne’s World of Wonders, 131. They sticke not to ting and peize the money.
1611. Cotgr., Tintiner, to ting, or toll, a bell.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Ting, to ring a small bell.
b. To ting bees, to make a ringing sound, as with a key and shovel, when bees swarm, to induce them to settle: cf. quot. 1495 in 1; also TANG v.2 4, RING v.2 10 b.
1609. C. Butler, Fem. Mon., i. (1623), 3. Tinging of swarmes to make them come downe.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, s.v., ‘To ting bees,’ is to collect them together, when they swarm, by the ancient music of the warming-pan and the key of the kitchen-door.
2. intr. Of a bell, a metal or glass vessel, or the like: To emit a high-pitched ringing note when struck, to ring.
1562. Phaër, Æneid, IX. D d j. His helmet tincgling tings.
1607. Rowlands, Diog. Lanth., 21. If we but heare a Bell to ting … Into a hole we straite may skippe.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. v. Bowls [began] to ting, glasses to ring.
1840. [see TINGING vbl. sb.].
b. trans. To announce (an hour) by tinging; to ring or strike (the hour). Also ting out.
1888. F. W. Robinson, Youngest Miss Green, III. 78. The clock … then tinged out ‘One.’
3. intr. To make a ringing sound with a bell, etc. Also to ting it.
1605. Armin, Foole upon F. (1880), 8. They tinged with a knife at the bottome of a glasse.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 492. Often tinging with a little Bell of Siluer.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. Prol. 6. There did he … ting it, ring it, tingle it, towl it.
1872. T. Hardy, Under Greenwood Tree, V. i. II. 186. So he jist stopped to ting to ’em [bees] and shake ’em.
