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, trans. Montaigne, III. 18. 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.
