Also zell. [Turkish zìl (Redhouse).] A kind of cymbal.
1817. Moore, Lalla Rookh, Fire-Worshippers, I. 8. Where, some hours since, was heard the swell Of trumpet and the clash of zel.
1838. Lytton, Leila, IV. i. The clash of the zell, the boom of the African drum, and the wild and barbarous blast of the Moorish clarion.
