cymballing

Noun

cymbaling (uncountable)

1. Action of the verb to cymbal; the playing of cymbals.
   • 1886, At a hole in a rotten weir they executed a recitative; where a tributary brook fell over a stone breastwork they trilled cheerily; under an arch they performed a metallic cymballing; and at Durnover Hole they hissed. - Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Castorbridge
2. the crashing together of two things as cymbals
   • Whereupon, he sat down amid a universal pounding of chest—lids, and cymbaling of tin pans; the few invalids, who, as yet, had not been actively engaged with the rest, now taking part in the applause, creaking their bunk— boards and swinging their hammocks.1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas