tabor
/ˈteɪbə
/noun historical
A small drum, especially one used simultaneously by the player of a simple pipe.Dance bands have varied from the medieval one-man band of pipe and tabor to the small symphony orchestras of Johann Strauss....
- Musicians will play pipes, tabors and sackbuts, to recreate the music from court and country.
- They sing a catch, the tune of which Ariel invisibly plays on a tabor and pipe.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French tabour 'drum'; perhaps related to Persian tabīra 'drum'. Compare with tambour.
Rhymes
- tropistically
- tropo
- tropocollagen
- tropologic
- tropological
- tropologically
- tropologise
- tropologize
- tropology
- tropolone
- tropometer
- tropomyosin
- tropone
- troponin
- tropopause
- tropophilous
- tropophyte
- tropophytic
- troposcatter
- troposphere
- tropospheric
- tropospheric scatter
- tropostereoscope
- tropotactic
- tropotactically