| 单词 | timbre weights |
| 释义 | > as lemmastimbre weights b. attributive in timbre weights, apparently = timbrels or tambourines as formerly used in May-day merry-makings.A weight (Sc. wecht) is a vessel like a sieve without holes, formed by stretching a skin across a hoop of a few inches depth. In shape it resembles a tambourine, which may therefore be called, as Jamieson points out, a timbre or timbrel weight. Wychtis appears to be erroneous for wechtis or weights, and waits to embody a false etymology. 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- c1560 A. Scott Moneth May in Poems 9 And now in May to madynnis fawis [i.e. falls] With tymmer wechtis to trip in ringis. 1593 in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1896) App. iii. 41 Dischairgeing [i.e. forbidding] also pasche playis, tymmer wychtis, banefyris and ringing of baisingis [basins]. 1756 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 73/2 After having completed this circuit, they again enter the town [Alnwick] sword in hand, and are generally met by women dressed up with ribbons, bells, and garlands of gum-flowers, who welcome them with dancing and singing, and are called timber-waits. [Note] Perhaps a corruption of timbrel-waits, players on timbrels, waits being an old word for those who play on musical Instruments in the streets.] < as lemmas |
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