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▪ I. timbrel, n.1 Now chiefly biblical.|ˈtɪmbrəl|
Also 6 tumbrel(le, timbril, -elle, tymbrel(le, Sc. timberall, 6–7 tym-, timbrell, 7 timbrill.
[app. a dim. of the earlier timbre n.1 in same sense: see -el2. So far as appears, it was an Eng. formation; but Sp. has a somewhat parallel dim. form in tamboril tabor, tabret, from tambor drum (cf. F. tambourin). More's spelling appears to be due to confusion with the earlier word tumbrel n., which was also sometimes written timbrel.]
A musical instrument of percussion; a tambourine or the like that could be held up in the hand.
Chiefly used (to render Heb. tōph) in versions of the Bible from Coverdale onward, or in allusions to the biblical use, and in reference to Oriental instruments thought to be the same or similar. Cf. the earlier timbre n.1
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxvii. 45 Syne come thair four and twentie madinis ȝing,..Playand on timberallis, and syngand rycht sweitlie. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1261/2 If the Turke stode euen here with all his whole army about him, &..fel al at once in a shoute, with trumpets, tabrets, & tumbrels al blowen vp at once. 1535Coverdale Exod. xv. 20 Miriam the prophetisse..toke a tymbrell in hir hande, and all the women folowed out after her with timbrels in a daunse. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 14 A great noyse of cimbals, drumslades, timbrelles, shames, pipes, flutes,..and diuerse other musical instrumentes. 1662J. Davies tr. Olearius' Voy. Ambass. 277 The Indian Timbrels are two foot long, but broader in the middle than at the Extremities, much after the fashion of our Barrels. [app. = tom-toms.] 1768Beattie Minstr. i. xxxv, With merriment, and song, and timbrels clear. c1850Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 165 A little hunchbacked fellow came..and began playing on a timbrel, which he accompanied with his voice.
b. ? A figure of a timbrel. (Cf. bells, etc.)
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 7 Of their hosen..the nether partes were of Scarlet, poudred with tymbrelles of fyne golde.
c. attrib. and Comb.
1552Huloet, Tymbrell player, tympanista,..tympanistria. 1757Dyer Fleece ii. Poems (1761) 102 O'er all the timbrel⁓sounding squares and streets. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. ii, The timbrel-girl sprang into the crowd and vanished.
▪ II. † timbrel, n.2 Sc. Obs. rare.
In 5 tymeral, 6 tymbrall, -ell, -ill.
[f. timbre n.2 + -el2.]
The crest of a helmet; = timbre n.2
c1450Holland Howlat 613 Four helmes full fair, And in thar tymeralis tryid trewly thai bere The plesand Povne..provde to repair. 1513Douglas æneis ii. viii. [vii.] 88 The portratour of armes was mysknaw, All war bot Grekis tymbrallis at thai saw.
▪ III. ˈtimbrel, v.
[f. timbrel n.1]
intr. To play upon a timbrel; trans. to accompany with a timbrel or similar instrument. Hence ˈtimbrelled |-brəld| ppl. a., accompanied by the playing of timbrels; also ˈtimbreller, a performer on the timbrel.
1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xxiv, In vain with Timbrel'd Anthems dark The sable-stoléd Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark. 1785S. Rogers Ode Superstit. 68 A timbrelled anthem swells the gale. 1833Bowles St. John in Patmos ii. 165 There the timbrelled hymn Rings to Osiris. 18..L. Hunt Death & Ruffians 14 To let their timbrellers and tumblers in. 1854S. Dobell Balder xxiv. 152 A country song..Fit to be timbrelled to the tambourine.
▪ IV. timbrel(l
obs. form of tumbrel. |