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WordNet
The English merchant Inkle meets Yarico in the West Indies after his shipwreck. Scene from the play Inkle and Yarico.
The English merchant Inkle meets Yarico in the West Indies after his shipwreck. Scene from the play Inkle and Yarico.
  1. (n) inkle
    a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Inkle
    A kind of tape or braid.
  2. Inkle
    To guess. "She inkled what it was."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. inkle
    To hint at; disclose. In this use somewhat uncertain, being found only in the following passage:
  2. inkle
    To have a hint or inkling of; divine.
  3. (n) inkle
    A kind of tape or braid formerly employed as a trimming, being sewed upon the surface as in modern braided work. It was either of a single color or of several in stripes.
  4. (n) inkle
    A material formerly used for decorative needlework, either crewel or embroidery-wool, or perhaps silk or flax.
  5. (n) inkle
    In modern use, a broad linen tape; wrought spinel.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Inkle
    ingk′l (Shak.) a kind of broad linen tape.
  2. (v.i) Inkle
    to have a hint of
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Prob.the same word as lingle, the first l being mistaken for the definite article in French. See Lingle

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. inclen, to hint at, which Skeat suspects to be corrupted from Dan. ymte, to mutter; cf. Ice. ym-ta, to mutter; ultimately imitative.

Usage in the news

Inspired by what she learned about Lewis, she agreed to write a novel that involved Lewis and the Inklings , a group of Oxford scholars who would meet regularly to discuss stories they had written. connectionnewspapers.com

FIRST INKLINGS OF THE TITLE. usatoday.com

I believe he has an inkling of this. nybooks.com

On May 21, we had an inkling of the future of health care. mcrecord.com

Despite these enhancements, the CourseSmart e-textbooks still seem worlds apart from the Inkling concept of a product that completely transcends the book. campustechnology.com

Follett Higher Education Group Now Offering Inkling® Products. communityjournal.net

Lara's Library (Sort Of): Inkling Edition of Stitch 'n Bitch Superstar Knitting. journalgazette.net

Williams, who eventually took Jairus under his wing, had his first inkling of Byrd 's potential while watching a high school tape. goerie.com

CHARLOTTE – Rusty Wallace was stunned by his election to the NASCAR Hall of Fame, but he had an inkling just before being named one of five inductees Wednesday. usatoday.com

I feel like being able to go back on those examples, and being through those particular things, I've had an inkling of how to win. mlive.com

San Francisco based startup Inkling has launched an iPad app to bring interactive textbooks to the tablet computer. money.cnn.com

Granted, most people had little or no inkling of who Yoko Ono was before John Lennon entered her life in 1966. soundandvisionmag.com

But if you give a person just a chance, just an inkling of hope, you'd be surprised at what parolees can do. scpr.org

Wacom Inkling Digital Pen Review. maclife.com

LINCOLN — Davies Tech head coach Victor Oliveira usually has an inkling as to how his squad will execute prior to a contest. pawtuckettimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

The first inkling of a connection form in Riem(M ) arose in [2, 3], where the mention of horizontal and vertical components of metric velocities first appears.
Gauge Theory in Riem(M)

All other binary slices are identically zero. Looking at the slices, one would have no inkl ing of the interaction between the inputs of the underlying Volterra system. We shall return to this later in Section 9 in our discussion of B01 analysis.
Improved Volterra Kernel Methods with Applications to the Visual System

But he did have this inkling that something was missing.
Genesis of general relativity - Discovery of general relativity

Neptune was never in doubt, and Pluto started off with only an inkling of trouble.
Planetesimals To Brown Dwarfs: What is a Planet?

This conference showed us how far we have come from the days of Hiltner & Hall, and gave us an inkling of how far we have to go.
Conference Summary: The Cosmic Agitator - Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy

Usage in literature

Only Mona, her favourite sister, had the smallest inkling of it, but even Mona was not in Nan's confidence just then. "The Odds" by Ethel M. Dell

If you do, I s'an't w'ip you, Johnny, but I'll sp'inkle some ashes on your head! "Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple" by Sophie May

None had an inkling of the truth. "The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes" by Israel Zangwill

I do not despair of arriving at some inkling of that truth. "Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge" by Arthur Christopher Benson

Hal began to have an inkling of the reasons for his father's popularity. "The Clarion" by Samuel Hopkins Adams

He got an inkling of the economic problems that afflict society. "Burned Bridges" by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Tell me if you believe that any one on the post has any inkling of the truth. "The Deserter" by Charles King

Could you not give me some inkling as to what you desire? "Charred Wood" by Myles Muredach

You seem to have had a sort of inkling about my brittleness when you were here. "The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It was his custom to mask his feelings so completely that very few had the smallest inkling as to his state of mind. "The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories" by Ethel M. Dell

Usage in poetry
They've formed a new committee now,
announced by royal letter,
without an earthly inkling how
it ought to make things better.
The day landed for the performance.
Men in the Department of Fulfilment inkled
how the town could be destroyed:
the oratorio was prevented.
Now I give you an inkling;
Now I breathe the word of the prudence that walks abreast with time,
space, reality,
That answers the pride which refuses every lesson but its own.
We saw those berries, over-ripe and glowing,
in weak and tepid light of the October sun
persisting red as blood, in right full-growing,
without much inkling of the winter clouds to come.
Sweet Effie was juist in the midst o' her teens
Whan she gat the first inkling o' what wooing means
Frae a chiel in the clachan, wha aften was seen
Stealin' up the burnside to the cot-hoose at e'en.
If I have lived before, some evidence
Should that existence to the present bind;
Some innate inkling of experience
Should still imbue and permeate the mind,
If we, progressing, pass from state to state,
Or retrograde, as turns the wheel of fate.