timber ling

[English timber (1), s.; dim in. suff.- ling.] A small timber-tree. (Prov.) *tim-bes-tere, *tym-bes-tere, subst . [English timb(rel); fem. suff. -ster .] A woman who played on the timbrel or tambourine, to the music of which she danced. They often went about in bands or companies. "A troop of timbrel-girls (or tymbesteres , as they were popularly called)."- Lytton: Last of the Barons, ch. ii. *tim-bour-ine, s. [TAMBOURINE.] *tim-bre (1), s. [TIMBER (1), 8.] *tim-bre (2), s. (Fr.) The same as TIMBER (2), s . (q. v.).