Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small drum, often having a snare, played by a fifer to accompany the fife.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small drum or tambourine (without jingles), especially one intended to be used by a piper while playing his pipe; a tabret or timbrel.
- To play upon or as upon a tabor; drum.
- To beat as a tabor; drum upon.
- n. Among the ancient nomadic Turks and Slavs, an encampment fortified by a circle of wagons or the like; afterward, a fortified camp or stronghold in general.
- n. plural An intrenchment of baggage for defense against cavalry.
Wiktionary
- n. A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
- v. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
- n. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Mus.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
- v. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
- v. To strike lightly and frequently.
- v. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small drum with one head of soft calfskin
Etymologies
- From various Slavic languages, from Turkish. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English tabur, from Old French, alteration of tambur; see tambour. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““So that particular show we experimented with all kinds of things, I brought a harmonium, there was a tabor daoul, oud of course, sitar, it was just an array of different instruments,” he added.”
Voice of America: Musician Malley Credits Music for Appreciation of Palestinian Culture
“The pipes and tabor, instruments devised for this mode of agitation, are depicted in both studioli.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“It is also fitting that the pipe and tabor — instruments played during military marching — are placed alongside the candied fruit as a reminder of Guidobaldo's worldly responsibilities as a condottiere. back”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“The military instruments of the pipe and tabor, Gubbio studiolo.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“His musicians played for us while we ate, and when the meal had been cleared away and the table removed, we danced to the sound of lute and pipe and tabor.”
“AN ACT to appropriate funds for beaver control at tabor correctional institution.”
“In 1737-38, he produced a transverse flute player, a pipe and tabor player, and a mechanical duck, which was especially noteworthy, not only imitating the motions of a live duck, but also the motions of drinking, eating, and "digesting." link posted by Staq Mavlen at 9:02 AM”
“And a thing seldom seen: One wandering musician walking through the whole festival area playing pipe and tabor - the classical medieval one-man-band!”
“The morris-dancers stood still — the hobby-horse surceased his capering — pipe and tabor were mute, and”
“Why, I thought you would have made all split long since — Come, strike up, tabor and harp, strike up, fiddle and rebeck — dance and be merry today, and let care come tomorrow.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tabor’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Formaggio
Italian cheese varieties.
Would you like some bread with it?
One region at a time, with no rush - I don't want to block wordie :-)
Please note that the list is far f...caciofiore aquilano, cacioricotta, caprino fresco, formaggio del buo..., formaggio puntato, giuncatella, incanestrato fogg..., pampanella, pecorino abruzzese, pecorino di farin..., pecorino sott´olio, scamorza passita and 250 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Percussion
Percussion instruments, excluding stringed ones such as piano, with drums, gongs, and bells tagged. Only mononyms are listed, so hi-hat and tom-tom are out. A gamelan is an assemblage of percussion...
drum, gong, bell, chime, cymbal, triangle, castanet, xylophone, glockenspiel, maraca, marimba, tambourine and 78 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
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Conceptions
Ideas of interesting things.
gharial, ungulate, glossolalia, druze, bultitude, maraschinos, pfifltriggi, borscht, electrifying, instrumentality, lion-eating poet ..., landsknecht and 60 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus Also, a kind of cheese from Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Jan 19, 2009
milosrdenstvi Also, a military formation of circled wagons (like a laager). Aug 15, 2008