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trilling¹

Rhymes with -ɪlɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of trill

noun trillings

  1. The production of a trill sound. It was pretty close quarters, but I had conversed with her at such length during the nest-building time, that she knew my voice and soon began to answer me in low trillings — trillings that could scarcely be heard — and turn her head to look at me in a friendly way.

trilling²

Rhymes with -ɪlɪŋ

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Compare German Drilling.

noun trillings

  1. A compound crystal consisting of three individuals. Diametrically opposed rays of these stellate groups are of the same optical orientation and the twins are, therefore, trillings ( fig. 29 ).
  2. obsolete, rare One of three offspring born at the same birth; a triplet. Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings.

Trilling³

proper noun Trillings

  1. A surname.

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@misc{trilling_2026,
  title = {trilling},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trilling},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}