Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient percussion instrument similar to a tambourine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tambourine . See alsotabor . - To sing to the sound of the timbrel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ancient
percussion instrument rather like a simpletambourine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was beat with the fingers, and corresponds to our tambourine. all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances -- We shall understand this by attending to the modern customs of the East, where the dance -- a slow, grave, and solemn gesture, generally accompanied with singing and the sound of the timbrel, is still led by the principal female of the company, the rest imitating her movements and repeating the words of the song as they drop from her lips.
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Their sackbut was something like a bagpipe; the timbrel was a tambourine; and the dulcimer, a horizontal harp with wire strings, and struck with a stick like the psaltery. "
Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867
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The toph, an instrument of the drum kind, rendered "timbrel" (Ex. 15: 20;
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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And Miriam the prophet took her timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her just as she had planned, and Miriam raised her voice in song
A Journey of Spirit 2010
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They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
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They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
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And the timbrel so clear, and the lute with dulcet string;
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For the king was so besotted with his women and his wine, that the employments of his most busy and serious hours consisted at the utmost in celebrating religious feasts in his palace, carrying a timbrel, and taking part in the show; while the greatest affairs of state were managed by
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
brtom commented on the word timbrel
"... or while timbrel and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquillity of the evening ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word timbrel
"In Exodus, for example, Miriam the prophetess takes 'a timbrel tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.'"
—Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 31
March 12, 2009