different between timbrel vs tabret

English

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French timbre, from Latin tympanum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?mb??l/

Noun

timbrel (plural timbrels)

1. An ancient percussion instrument rather like a simple tambourine.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Religious Musings

     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 […]

   • "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. […]"

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To play the timbrel.
2. (transitive) To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
   • 1833, William Lisle Bowles, St. John in Patmos

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

Anagrams

• Trimble

English

Noun

tabret (plural tabrets)

1. A small tabor; a timbrel
2. (obsolete) A person who plays the tabor.

Translations

References

• Holy Bible, KJV: I Samuel 18:6 - "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities and Israel, singing and dancing, to meet kind Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music."
• Holy Bible, NKJV: Job 17:6 - "He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."

Anagrams

• Tarbet, batter