Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
timbal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of kettledrum.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
timbal .
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Examples
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Sachs Butterfly House in Chesterfield, says they make that sound by vibrating an organ on the side of their thorax called a tymbal.
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Do Thou that wast born of the Virgin, drown in the depth of impassivity the triformity of my soul -- those mighty strongholds, I implore Thee, that in the mortification of flesh as on a tymbal I may melodize a triumphant hymn unto Thee.
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Aside from China, Russia's prime minister Vladimir Putin recently argued that explain, the most distinctive feature of the whole family is a tymbal organ on the metathorax.
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