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tabor

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ta·bor also ta·bour  (tbr)
n.
A small drum, often having a snare, played by a fifer to accompany the fife.
[Middle English tabur, from Old French, alteration of tambur; see tambour.]
tabor, tabour [ˈteɪbə]
n
(Music / Instruments) Music a small drum used esp in the Middle Ages, struck with one hand while the other held a three-holed pipe See pipe1 [7]
[from Old French tabour, perhaps from Persian tabīr]
taborer , tabourer n
Tabor [ˈteɪbə]
n
(Placename) Mount. a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft.)
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Noun1.tabortabor - a small drum with one head of soft calfskin
tabour
drum, membranophone, tympan - a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end


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Barak came down from Mount Tabor, twenty or twenty-five miles from here, and gave battle to Jabin's forces, who were in command of Sisera.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
The air resounds with the pipe and tabor, and the drums and trumpets of the showmen shouting at the doors of their caravans, over which tremendous pictures of the wonders to be seen within hang temptingly; while through all rises the shrill "root-too-too-too" of Mr.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as they drew near they perceived that the trees of a leafy arcade that had been constructed at the entrance of the town were filled with lights unaffected by the wind, for the breeze at the time was so gentle that it had not power to stir the leaves on the trees.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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