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tiompan

-ain, pl –an & -ain, sm Any musical instrument. 2 Timbrel, cymbal, tabor, drum. 3 Harp. 4** Drum of the ear. 5** Kitchen-jack. 6 One-sided knoll. 7 Narrow gully. 8 Nozzle of a bellows. Tiompan 'na làimh, a timbrel in his hand; tha a' ghaoth cho fuar 's ged a bhiodh i a' tighinn á tiompan, the wind is as cold as if it were blowing out of a bellows' mouth; is mairg a losgadh a thiompan dhut! pity him who would burn his harp for you! — alluding to the story of a Hebridean harper, who having nothing else to make a fire with to warm his wife, broke his harp in pieces and burned it. His wife's heart, it seems, was colder than her body, as she ran away with another man before morning!

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