Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small drum, often having a snare, played by a fifer to accompany the fife.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To play upon or as upon a tabor; drum.
  • To beat as a tabor; drum upon.
  • noun 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.
  • noun plural An intrenchment of baggage for defense against cavalry.
  • noun A small drum or tambourine (without jingles), especially one intended to be used by a piper while playing his pipe; a tabret or timbrel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
  • intransitive verb To play on a tabor, or little drum.
  • intransitive verb To strike lightly and frequently.
  • transitive verb To make (a sound) with a tabor.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
  • noun 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.
  • verb To make (a sound) with a tabor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small drum with one head of soft calfskin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English tabur, from Old French, alteration of tambur; see tambour.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.

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  • Also, a military formation of circled wagons (like a laager).

    August 15, 2008

  • Also, a kind of cheese from Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

    January 20, 2009

  • I like the concept of 'an intrenchment of baggage for defense against cavalry.'

    September 4, 2015

  • Just think how the course of human history has been changed by Delta losing people's suitcases.

    September 4, 2015