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ting-tang, n.|ˈtɪŋˌtæŋ|
Also ting-tong.
[Echoic.]
A succession of two ringing sounds, differing in tone or force.
1. The alternating sound made by the ringing of a small bell; hence transf. a small bell, esp. the sanctus bell. In quot. 1680 advb.
1680V. Alsop Mischief of Impos. Ep. Ded., That [bell] which..goes Ting tang, ting tang, before the Hoste, when carried to the sick. a1800Pegge Suppl. Grose, Ting-Tang, called in the South The Saint's-bell. 1808–18Jamieson, Ting-tang, sound of a bell. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Ting-tang, a small and shrill bell, to summon the family to dinner, the congregation to prayers, &c. 1848Noake Rambler Worc. I. 308 There is a peal of six bells, besides a ‘ting tang’. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Ting-tang, a peal of two bells; a term derived from the sound—the lighter bell being ting, the heavier tang.
b. Jingling repetition of sounds, rime.
1686F. Spence tr. St. Euremont's Misc. Pref., Blank-verse..without the necessity of cursing Arabique customs or Moorish innovations, which forced a man to spoil a good thought by tagging it with Ting-tong.
2. attrib., as ting-tang bell; ting-tang clock, see quot. 1884.
1777in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 278 A small or Ting Tang bell. 1862Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. ii. No. 3302, Ting tong carriage clock. 1875J. W. Benson Time & Time-tellers (1902) 99 St. Paul's Cathedral Clock..may be described as a ting-tang quarter on the rack principle. 1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 265 Ting Tang Clock..[is] a clock that sounds the half hours or quarters on two bells only.
Hence ting-tang v. dial. [cf. WFris. tingetangen].
1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Ting-tang, to ring into church with two bells. 1888W. Raymond Misterton's Mistake viii, As if Wycherney volk had nothing..to do but to listen to hear the parish bell ting-tangey. |