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timbal, tymbal|ˈtɪmbəl|
Also timbul.
[= mod.F. timbale (1646 in Hatz.-Darm.), It. timballo, Sp. timbal, Pg. timbal, timbale, substituted for, and app. altered from, earlier F. attabale (Cotgr. 1611), It. taballo (Florio 1611), Sp. atabal, Pg. attabale, see atabal. It is not clear in which lang. or under what influence the change was made (perh. in It., which had already dropped initial a): cf. the F. alteration of tabour to tambour. The spelling tymbal was app. due to the influence of cymbal.]
1. A kettledrum. Now Hist. or arch.
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1484/1 The Trumpets and Timbals led the way. c1709Prior Charity 15 A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. 1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5106/2 Two hundred of their People [Turks] riding..with Timbals and Chalumeaux. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. l. (1846) V. 15 A chorus of women, striking their tymbals, and displaying the pomp of their nuptials. 1813Arabian Nts. III. 345 [They] danced and skipped about him to the sound of the tymbals.
2. = timbale 1.
1929J. G. Myers Insect Singers vi. 77 The essential elements of the [sound-producing] apparatus are the tymbals and the tymbal-muscles. 1969R. F. Chapman Insects xxviii. 585 In the dorso-lateral region of the first segment of Platypleura (Cicadidae) there is on each side an area of very thin cuticle supported by a thick cuticular rim... This area of cuticle forms the tymbal.
So † ˈtymbalon (arbitrary form of prec.).
1817Moore Lalla R., Veiled Proph., With gong and tymbalon's tremendous chime. |