tabour

• “The "tabour" or "tabor" was a musical instrument of the drum type which with the pipe formed the band of a country village.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “To "tabour," accordingly, is to beat with loud strokes, as men beat upon such an instrument.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.”

  Love’s Labour ’s Lost

• “I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet.”

  Much Ado About Nothing

• “Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by thy tabour?”

  Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

• “Although the major assures me that there is all the timber we will need on the site, I plan to use wire mesh for the construction of the abions and human tabour for the filling of the mesh 9 nets with stone and aggregate.”

  The Seventh Scroll

• “You find me the tabour, and I will build your dam," Sapper grunted.”

  The Seventh Scroll

• “They touch heaven, tabour on it; how their talons sweep”

  (Ash-boughs)

• “They touch, they tabour on it, hover on it [; here, there hurled],”

  (Ash-boughs)

• “The sound of pipe, tabour, and psaltery in melodious combination arose from the valley, and all hearts, save one, were happy.”

  Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine

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