minstreled

Verb

minstrel (third-person singular simple present minstrels, present participle (US) minstreling or (UK) minstrelling, simple past and past participle (US) minstreled or (UK) minstrelled)

1. (also, attributive, figuratively, transitive) To play (a tune on a musical instrument); to sing (a song).
   • Blest be the impulse which did urge me forth, / Minstrelling winds with music, which did melt / Into kind ears like softly opening showers, / To those who asked if beggar wanted bread.1858, J[ohn] F[razer] Corkan, An Hour Ago: Or Time in Dreamland. A Mystery, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, →OCLC, page 93
2. (also, attributive, figuratively, intransitive) To act as a minstrel; to entertain by playing a musical instrument, singing, etc.
   • Crown me, therefore,—and minstrelling near to thy fanes, Bacchus, thickly-adorned with rosy chaplets will I dance with a full-bosomed maid.1830, Anacreon, “Ode V. On the Rose.”, in T. W. C. Edwards, transl., Τα του Ανακρεοντος του Τηιου Μελη = The Odes of Anacreon the Teian Bard, Literally Translated into English Prose; […], London: […]...

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