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tabour

[tey-ber] Origin

ta·bor

[tey-ber]
noun
1.
a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
verb (used without object)
2.
to play upon or as if upon a tabor; drum.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
verb (used with object)
3.
to strike or beat, as on a tabor.
Also, taber, ta·bour.


Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English < Old French tab(o)ur; see tambour; (v.) Middle English tabouren, derivative of the noun or < Old French taborer, derivative of tab(o)ur

ta·bor·er, ta·bour·er, noun
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tabor or tabour (ˈteɪbə)
 
n
music See pipe a small drum used esp in the Middle Ages, struck with one hand while the other held a three-holed pipe
 
[C13: from Old French tabour, perhaps from Persian tabīr]
 
tabour or tabour
 
n
 
[C13: from Old French tabour, perhaps from Persian tabīr]
 
'taborer or tabour
 
n
 
'tabourer or tabour
 
n

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tabor
"small drum resembling a tamborine," late 13c., from O.Fr. tabour, tabur "drum" (11c.), probably from Pers. tabir "drum," but evolution of sense and form are uncertain. Related to tambourine.
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