trinkle3 (tringkl)

i.; pret. and pp. trinkled, ppr. trinkling. trinkling. [Appar. a var. (if (if so, unusual) of trinket1.] To treat underhand or secretly (with); tamper, as with the opinions of another. Hall i well. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Many discontented persons in England were suspected to have trinkled , at least with Holland, about raising seditions, and perhaps insurrections in England. Sir W. Temple, Works, II. 286.