nabla

nabla, ~um [LL < νάβλα < Heb. nēbel; CL nabliapl. only], ~ium 1 sort of stringed instrument, nable, psaltery, or sim; b (dist. from cythara and psalterium). ~ium, psalterium GlC Interp. Nom. 230; a989 tu tuba caelestis, tu nabli cordaque cantrix (Vers.; Ep. Dunst.) Mem. Dunst. 371; caelica Deo turba festive nabla cieto Trop. Wint. 115; organa, nabla, lire, tympana, musae, / cymbala, sistra, chori, sidera, montes, / valles et fluvios laudibus implent Gosc. Edith 270; lite graves aule, jocundula nabla querelis Hanv. IX 416; ~um Hebraice, psalterium Grece S. Langton Chron. 120.  b cyneris ~is, i. citharis longiores quam psalterium nam psalterium triangulum fit Gl. Leid. 12. 40; quippe cum tubis et ~is et citharis et canticis variis stigmatibus rigoris et lenitatis firmatur civitas R. Niger Mil. III 24. 2 (understood as percussive as dist. from plucked instrument). in ~is, in cimbalis quae per pedes ponuntur Gl. Leid. 7. 1; nacorne, instrumente off mynstralsy, ~um PP.