Tumbere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Tumbere

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: es; m. Related words: § 3. Cf. A tumbler

Definitions

1 tumbere

A tumbler, dancer, player: -- Gligmon mimus, jocista, scurra, gligman pantomimus, tumbere saltator, Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 42-44. Tumbere oððe gligman histrio, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 3; Zup. 35, 6. [The feminine form tumbestre occurs in later English: Herodias douȝter, that was a tumbestere, and tumblede byfore him. Halliw. Dict. Than comen tombesteres Fetys and smale. Chauc. Pard. T. 477. See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, Bk. iii. c. saltator (in a list headed nomina jugulatorum), Wrt. Voc. i. 218, col. 2: saltatrix, 216, col. 2; and see tumbullere saltalrix, in the note. Tumlare, tumblar volutator, volutatrix, Prompt. Partornatrix, Wülck. Gl. 616, 47.]

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ᛏᚢᛗᛒᛖᚱᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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