a. and sb. Obs. rare. Also 5 quynnyble. [Irreg. f. L. quin(que) five, on anal. of trible, TREBLE, quatrible, QUATREBLE.]

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  A.  adj. Fivefold; quintuple.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxxix. (MS. e Museo 16). In some treble and in some quatreble, in some quynyble.

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  B.  sb. 1. A fivefold amount.

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14[?].  [see QUATREBLE B. 1].

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  2.  A part in music, one octave above the treble. (Cf. QUATREBLE B. 2.)

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Miller’s T., 146. Ther to he song som tyme a loud quynyble.

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a. 1550.  Image Ipocr., III. 78, in Skelton’s Wks., II. 434/1. They finger ther fidles And cry in quinibles.

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