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tabor - What does it mean?

Definition of 'tabor'

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tabour.

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A small drum. In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
  • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make (a sound) with a tabor.
  • To strike lightly and frequently.
  • Etymology 2

    From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
  • * 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 269:
  • A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee.

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