Definition of "ting"

Ting, ting, ting! went the bell again. Everybody sat down; the curtain shook, rose sufficiently high to display several pair of yellow boots paddling about, and there it remained.

1839, Charles Dickens, “The Private Theatricals”, in Sketches by Boz

Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York: Doubleday & McClure, published 1899, page xxiii. 307

At the same moment the ting of a bell sounded sharply.

1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 36

It was built by Alco—the American Locomotive Company—and looked fairly new; it was carried on two 4-wheel bogies, and had a funny bell that tinged continuously somewhere inside.

1942 February, “A Railway Day in New England”, in Railway Magazine, page 38

Inter, two man in Milan, heard one of my tings datin' P. Diddy / Need twenty percent of whatever she bags

2023, “Sprinter”, performed by Central Cee x Dave