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tabor Definition

ta·bor (tā′bər)

noun

a small drum, formerly used by a pipe player to beat out his own rhythmic accompaniment

Etymology: ME < OFr tabur < Pers tabīr, drum

intransitive verb

to beat on or as on a tabor

Tabor Definition

Ta·bor (tā′bər)

mountain in N Israel, east of Nazareth: c. 1,900 ft (579 m)

tabor Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • laager: Six hundred Bohemian handgunners defended the tabor laager at the battle of Varna in 1444 AD.
  • playing: However, the information about pipe and tabor playing in Gloucestershire for the Cotswold Morris is very fragmentary and difficult to thread together.
Tabor Quotes

Mr Creston Clarke played King Lear at theTabor Grand last night. All through five acts of Shakespeare's tragedy he played the king as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.

—Field, Eugene

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