Meaning of tink | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To emit a high-pitched sharp or metallic noise.
2. To unknit.
   slang, transitive

Examples

“Jimmy heard the bells tink.”

“Stanley knitted when he should have purled and swore, tinking the knitting back to fix the flaw.”

“If the stitch you need to fix is on the last or previous row, a bit of unknitting, or “tinking” as it is known by some knitters, is all that is needed to get back to the point where you can mend your mistake.”

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