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▪ I. tabor, tabour, n.1 Now rare.|ˈteɪbə(r)|
Also 4 tabre, 4–5 tabur, 5 -yr, 5–6 taboure, 4–8 taber, 6–9 tabber. See also taborn.
[a. OF. tabur (11th c.), tabour (13–16th c.), beside tanbor, tambur (14–15th c.), tambour (16th c.–) = Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. tambor (OSp. atambor), It. tamburo: the relations between the forms in ta- and those in tam-, tan- have not been clearly determined. The word is held to be of Oriental origin, and has been compared with Pers. tabīrah, and tabūrāk, both meaning ‘drum’, and with Arab. ṭanbūr a kind of lute or lyre. The actual history is uncertain: see Dozy, and Devic in Littré; also Gaston Paris in Romania, 1902.]
1. The earlier name of the drum; in later use (esp. since the introduction of the name drum in the 16th c.), A small kind of drum, used chiefly as an accompaniment to the pipe or trumpet; a taborin or tabret. Now Hist., arch., or poetic.
c1290Beket 1851 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 159 Of bellene and of tabours so gret was þe soun. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8166 Of trompes & of tabors þe sarazins made þere So gret noyse. c1300Havelok 2329 Þe gleymen on þe tabour dinge. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles i. 58 Men myȝtten as well haue huntyd an hare with a tabre. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 616/28 Timpanum, a taber, or a tymbre. 14..in Hist. Coll. Citizen London (Camden) 220 He stode a-pon an hylle wyth hys tabyr and hys pype. c1460Emare 389 Ther was myche menstralse, Trommpus, tabours, and sawtre. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cxlvii. 176 Than the kyng mounted on his horse, and entred into the towne with trumpets, tabours. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1553/2 Singing of psalmes, marching about their fiers with tabber and pipe. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 175 Then I beate my Tabor, At which like vnback't colts they prickt their eares. 1624Capt. J. Smith Virginia iv. 155 Will any goe to catch a Hare with a Taber and a Pipe? 1693Humours Town 2 The Clamours of a Country-Mob..is no more than the beating of a Tabour. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. iv, The whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister,..preceded by a pipe and tabor. 1843Lytton Last Bar. i. ii, A marvellous horse that beat a tabor with his fore feet. 1880in Grove Dict. Music II. 754/2 The tabor was a diminutive drum, without snares, hung by a short string to the waist or left arm, and tapped with a small drumstick. 1907Ibid. III. 750/2 The pipe and tabor, for a long time very popular throughout Europe, are now obsolete in this country.
fig.1601Hakewill Van. Eye xvii. (1615) 87 The Duke of Vandosme, the common tabour of the French wits. 1624Quarles Job xi. 69, I am become a By-word, and a Taber, To set the tongues, and eares of men, in labour.
b. transf. The drummer (with his drum).
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. ii. 79 Taberes & tomblers & tapesters fele. 1789Burney Hist. Mus. III. iii. 254 As a new married couple went out of the church the violins and tabors attended them.
†2. The tympanum or drum of the ear. Obs.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 84 The aire..moueth the litle hammer of the eares,..and so maketh a sound by meanes of the litle taber, through whose sounde the spirites of hearing are awakened. 1615Crooke Body of Man 592 The first cauity of the stony bone, which before we called the Tympane, that is the drume or Taber.
3. attrib. and Comb., as tabor-beating; tabor-like adj. or adv.; tabor-stick, a drumstick.
13..K. Alis. 2158 (Bodl. MS.) Now rist grete tabor betyng, Blaweyng of pypes, & ek trumping. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Hawking d j b, With yowre hande or with yowre tabur styke becke yowre hawke to come to you. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 27 The whole Fabrick..covered atop Taber-like.
▪ II. ‖ ˈtabor, n.2
Also tabour.
[Boh., Polish, Serb. tabor, Magyar tábor, a. Turkish tabor camp (anciently a camp of nomads formed by a circle of wagons or the like).]
An encampment.
1877Daily News 25 Oct. 5/4 At Podgoritza..15 tabors of Nizams and four tabors of troops of the reserve are being concentrated preparatory to offensive operations against Montenegro.
▪ III. tabor, tabour, v. Now rare.|ˈteɪbə(r)|
Forms: see tabor n.1
[f. tabor n.1, or a. OF. taborer (13th c. in Godef.).]
1. intr. To perform upon or beat the tabor; to drum. Also to tabor it.
13..K. Alis. 924 (Bodl. MS.) Þer was trumpyng & tabouryng Lepyng of stedes & nayȝeyng. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 230, I can noither tabre ne trompe. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) ii. xliv. (1859) 50 They floyted and they tabered; they yellyd, and they cryed. c1440Promp. Parv. 485/2 Tabowryn, timpaniso. 1530Palsgr. 746/1, I will tabour, play thou upon the flute therwhyles. 1591Nashe Pref. Sydney's Astr. & Stella in G. G. Smith Eliz. Crit. Ess. (1904) II. 226 Nor hath my prose any skill to imitate the Almond leape verse, or sit tabring..nothing but ‘to bee, to hee’, on a paper drum. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xiv. (1737) 56 Trudon Pip'd it and then Taber'd it like mad. 1902Speaker 5 Apr. 10/1 The inevitable ‘tambourinaire’ fifes and tabors away.
b. transf. and fig. To beat as upon a tabor; to drum.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 72 This brought the common rumor to taber on his [Solon's] head. 1611Bible Nahum ii. 7 Her maids shall leade her..tabring vpon their breasts. 1653D. Osborne Lett., to Sir W. Temple (1903) 179 His humour was to rise in the night, and with two bedstaves tabour upon the table an hour together. 1692L'Estrange Fables ccccxvii. (1714) 451 He [the Ass] went..Tabring with his Feet all the Way. 1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 265 With Hammer on Kettle he tabbers all Day. 1859F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 356 Mrs. Soaper..re-echoed her husband's words, and tabbered with her fingers on the table, expectant of my reply.
2. trans. To beat (a tune, etc.): cf. drum v. 8.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 354 (Fairf. MS.) In youre courte ys many a losengeour and many a queynt totelere accusour That tabouren [v.rr. taboryn, tauburn] in youre eres many a swon.
†3. To beat, thump (anything); to thrash. Obs.
1624Quarles Job xviii. 63 Marke with what pride his horny hoofes doe tabor The..Earth. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize ii. v, I would tabor her, Till all the legions that are crept into her, Flew out with fire i' th' tails. 1655tr. Com. Hist. Francion iii. 55 Beating the Switzers march upon their buttocks; and..they fell to tabour mine to the same tune.
Hence ˈtaboring vbl. n.
13..[see sense 1]. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 98 Of his drumming, tabouring, and other enormious indignities, under the colour of religion. 1867Morris Jason viii. 360 Bear back the fleece Along our streets..with much scattered flowers and tabouring. |