单词 | timbrel |
释义 | timbreln.1 Now chiefly biblical. a. A musical instrument of percussion; a tambourine or the like that could be held up in the hand.Chiefly used (to render Hebrew tōph) in versions of the Bible from Coverdale onward, or in allusions to the biblical use, and in reference to Asian instruments thought to be the same or similar. Cf. earlier timbre n.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > timbrel or tambourine timpc1275 timbre13.. tabret1464 taborinc1500 timbrela1535 timbre weightsc1560 tambourine1579 tombak1662 tambour de basque1688 tambouret1776 tambo1848 pandereta1857 toph1864 timpani1876 pandero1914 pandeiro1922 bamboula1938 tabouret- a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. xxvii. sig. X.i If the Turke stode euen here, with al his whole armie about him, and..fell al at once in a shoute with trumpets, tabrets and tumbrels al blowen vp at once. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 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. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Biijv A great noyse of cimbals, drumslades, timbrelles, shames, pipes, flutes. 1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 65 Syne come thair four and tuentie madinis ȝing,..Playand on timberallis and singand rycht sweitlie. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 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.] 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxxvii. 19 With merriment, and song, and timbrels clear. c1850 Arabic 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. bell n.1, etc.) Π 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. vii Of their hosen..the nether partes were of Scarlet, poudred with tymbrelles of fyne golde. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. Π 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tymbrell player, tympanista,..tympanistria. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece ii. 60 O'er all the timbrel-sounding squares and streets. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. ii. 39 The timbrel girl sprung into the crowd, and vanished. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † timbreln.2 Scottish. Obsolete. rare. The crest of a helmet; = timbre n.2 ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > crest crestc1325 timbre1478 helmet-crest1509 timbrel1513 cone1737 comb1834 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. viii. [vii.] 88 The portratour of armes was mysknaw, All war bot Grekis tymbrallis at thai saw. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 613 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 114 Four helmes full faire And in yair tymeralis tryid trewly yai bere The plesand povne..provde to repaire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021). timbrelv. intransitive. To play upon a timbrel; transitive to accompany with a timbrel or similar instrument. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > beat drum [verb (transitive)] > play tambourine timbrel1854 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiv. 152 A country song..Fit to be timbrelled to the tambourine. Derivatives ˈtimbrelled adj. /-brəld/ accompanied by the playing of timbrels. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > religious or devotional > [adjective] > accompanied by timbrels timbrelled1645 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxiv, in Poems 11 In vain with Timbrel'd Anthems dark The sable-stoled Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark. 1785 S. Rogers Ode Superstit. 68 A timbrelled anthem swells the gale. 1833 Bowles St. John in Patmos ii. 165 There the timbrelled hymn Rings to Osiris. ˈtimbreller n. a performer on the timbrel. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > player of tambourine or timbrel timbester?a1366 tymburnar14.. timbrerc1425 tambo1848 timbreller1855 tambourinist1961 1855 L. Hunt Stories in Verse 265 To let their timbrellers and tumblers in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1a1535n.21513v.1645 |
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