[f. TIMBREL sb.1] intr. To play upon a timbrel; trans. to accompany with a timbrel or similar instrument. Hence Timbrelled ppl. a., accompanied by the playing of timbrels; also Timbreller, a performer on the timbrel.
1629. Milton, Hymn Nativity, xxiv. In vain with Timbrel’d Anthems dark The sable-stoléd Sorcerers bear his worshipt Ark.
1785. S. Rogers, Ode Superstit., 68. A timbrelled anthem swells the gale.
1833. Bowles, St. John in Patmos, II. 165. There the timbrelled hymn Rings to Osiris.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, xxiv. 152. A country song … Fit to be timbrelled to the tambourine.
1855. L. Hunt, Death & Ruffians, 14, in Stories in Verse, 265.
| Their doors were ever turning on the pin | |
| To let their timbrellers and tumblers in. |
