cymbal

noun

1. A concave plate of metal, usually brass or bronze, that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.

   “The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes, Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans, Make the sun dance.”

   “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.”

   “Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne, As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.”

   “I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang […]”