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Definition of Tabour
1. Noun. A small drum with one head of soft calfskin.
Definition of Tabour
1. n. & v. See Tabor.
Definition of Tabour
1. Noun. (musical instruments) (alternative spelling of tabor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tabour
1. to tabor [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: tabor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tabour
Literary usage of Tabour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"•Some blow the bagpipe up, that plays the The tabour and the pipe some take ...
A small tabour. They shall depart the manor before him with trumpets, ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"2. 160. taboret, tabouret (tab'o-rct, tab'ij-ret), ». [< OF. tabouret, a stool,
pincushion, base of a pillar, lit. a little drum or tabor, dim. of tabour, ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1885)
"Der. tabour-ci or tabret, a dimin. form. Taboo, Tabu, to forbid the use of. ...
F. tambourin, a tabour, dimin. of F. tambour, a tabour or drum ; see tabour. ..."
4. The new and complete dictionary of the English languageby John Ash by John Ash (1795)
"... fj from labour) Playing on the tabour, labouring (i. fram tb; faft. ...
thr aa of playing on a tabour, the found of rt^nt and repeated ..."
5. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"tabour, tà'bûr. s. (314). A small drum, a drum beaten with one stick to accompany
... A tabour. To TABULATE, tub'u-late. va To reduce to tables or synopses. ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Fr. tabour-er, to strike or bump on the ... M on a drum ; from tabour, л drum.
... SOV tabour. ..."
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