timbrel

American  

[tim-bruhl] / ˈtɪm brəl /

noun

1. a tambourine or similar instrument.

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timbrel British  

/ ˈtɪmbrəl /

noun

1. Bible another word for tambourine

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Other Word Forms

• timbrelist
  noun
• timbreled
  adjective
• timbrelled
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of timbrel

1490–1500; earlier timbre drum ( see timbre) + -el diminutive suffix

Example Sentences

Exceeds the Timbrel, or the Syren's voice Harmonious, when collective plates go round, And Hock and Turtle make the heart rejoice.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828 by Various

Take a Psalm, and bring hither the Timbrel, the pleasant Harp with the Psaltery, blow up the Trumpet in the New Moon, in the Time appointed on our solemn Feast-Day, &c.

From A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church. by Watts, Isaac

Sound the loud Timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

Timbrel, tim′brel, n. an ancient musical instrument, carried in the hand, apparently like a tambourine.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

He was a composer, and was remembered by one of his airs, at least, into the nineteenth century, namely "Sound the Loud Timbrel."

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald