Cymbal

1. n. A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings.
2. n. A musical instrument used by the ancients. It is supposed to have been similar to the modern kettle drum, though perhaps smaller.
3. n. A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; — used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.