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cymbaling

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Action of the verb to cymbal; the playing of cymbals.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Examples

  • 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
  • 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."
  • procolharum.com Mick Grabham's guitar (which contributes some rhythmical chops not found on the record) sounds as though it is going through a Leslie speaker, and Chris Copping appears to be going for a neo-Garth Hudson Lowrey-silver sound at times. BJ eschews the rapid quaver cymballing that he favoured in the play-out on the record. "

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noun

Meaning 2

the crashing together of two things as cymbals

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

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