Also 7 ataballe, 8 attaball. [a. Sp. atabal, a. Arab. aṭ-tabl, i.e. al the, ṭabl a drum. (Also in F. attabale.)] A kind of kettle-drum or tabour used by the Moors.
1672. Dryden, Conq. Granada, I. i. (1725), 32. From the Streets sound Drums and Ataballes.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. lxviii. 723. The martial music of drums, trumpets, and attaballs.
1811. Scott, Roderick, I. xix. Then answered kettle-drum and atabal.
