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- noun See
tumbester .
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(noun) - A woman who played tricks with timbres, batons of some sort, by throwing them up into the air and catching them upon a single finger; a kind of balance-mistress. Saxon.
--Thomas Tyrwhitt's Glossary of the Poetical Works of Chaucer, 1871
January 15, 2018