timbrel

Diminutive of Old French timbre, from Latin tympanum.

timbrel (plural timbrels)

1. An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
     The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
     With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
     To forms of beauty […]

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

timbrel (third-person singular simple present timbrels, present participle timbrelling, simple past and past participle timbrelled)

1. (intransitive) To play the timbrel.
2. (transitive) To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
   • Milton

     with timbrelled anthems

   • William Lisle Bowles

     Yet there the timbrelled hymn / Rings to Osiris […]

• Trimble