Cymbaling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cymbaling is a noun meaning Action of the verb to cymbal; the playing of cymbals.
Meaning
Action of the verb to cymbal; the playing of cymbals.
More Meanings
- the crashing together of two things as cymbals
Example Sentences
healthandage.com The voices of passing children reverberated like gongs - booming, peeling, cymbaling into switchbacking rollercoasters of sound.
"Manpurse" of vgmix.com It starts out with grungy-sounding guitar and lots of reverse cymballing. You start to segue in a softer, synthier sound but immediately put the guitar back into focus."
Whereupon, he sat down amid a universal pounding of chest—lids, and cymbaling of tin pans; the few invalids, who, as yet, had not been actively engaged with the rest, now taking part in the applause, creaking their bunk— boards and swinging their hammocks.
1886, At a hole in a rotten weir they executed a recitative; where a tributary brook fell over a stone breastwork they trilled cheerily; under an arch they performed a metallic cymballing; and at Durnover Hole they hissed. - Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Castorbridge
Word Forms
- cymballing
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include crashes, cimbal, cymbalo, symbal, cymbalon, cymbalum.
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