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Trilling

name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    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 )."

  3. 3
    One of three offspring born at the same birth; a triplet. obsolete, rare

    "Every 67th lying-in woman has twins, every 5333rd has trillings, and only every 150,000th has fourlings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of trill form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Compare German Drilling.

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