Word Meanings - TIMBAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kettledrum. See Tymbal.

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• KETTLEDRUM
  A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. Note: Kettledrums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they
• TYMBAL
  A kind of kettledrum. A tymbal's sound were better than my voice. Prior.
• KETTLEDRUMMER
  One who plays on a kettledrum.