Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of trill.
  • noun obsolete One of three children born at the same birth; a triplet.
  • noun crystallography A compound crystal consisting of three individuals.

Etymologies

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Compare German Drilling.

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Examples

  • Well, maybe 'trilling' is not the appropriate word.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • He heard her trilling, in and out through open windows, all down the long wing that was hers.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • Rose was in the kitchen, hemming the sleeve of her new bluebell blue dress and drinking a bowl of chocolate when we came trilling home—a happy, boisterous quartet.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • He writes well of the beauty he encounters: "There's something wonderfully inspiring about rivers—about the determination with which they set their sights on the sea and weave around the infinite obstacles in their path while never losing their sweet trilling song."

    Semi-Roughing It Michael J. Ybarra 2011

  • Rose was in the kitchen, hemming the sleeve of her new bluebell blue dress and drinking a bowl of chocolate when we came trilling home—a happy, boisterous quartet.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • An assertion you just hope was followed by somebody trilling: Ooh, get you.

    Consign the handshake to history – or risk a sporting palmdemic | Harry Pearson 2012

  • The deceptively sugary, trilling Breaking Point does observe that some women "tolerate too damn much", but it's easily missed.

    Keri Hilson: No Boys Allowed – review 2011

  • Her trilling laughter smote upon his reverie, and he stepped to the screen-door, through which he could see her running down the path to the beach.

    Chapter 13 2010

  • One, simply to overide the news of the rise of the 9 trilling $ debt ... and divert the town hall folks 'attention in a different direction.

    On day two, Obama takes a break to make news 2009

  • Noseemateemah made a trilling sound that Saamerah swore was laughter.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

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  • When Mother reads aloud, the past

    Seems real as every day;

    I hear the tramp of armies vast,

    I see the spears and lances cast,

    I join the trilling fray;

    Brave knights and ladies fair and proud

    I meet when Mother reads aloud.

    - Theresa Helburn, 'When Mother Reads Aloud'.

    November 1, 2008