tamboon.1
/tamˈbuː/ Military slang.
In the war of 1914–18, a temporary rough shelter in a trench.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > shelter in trench
dugout1904
tamboo1916
elephant1917
glory-hole1925
1916 Sphere 19 Feb. 188 b/1 The ‘Tamboo’, as the sleeping apartment [in a dug-out] is called.
1918 W. Owen Let. 28 Sept. (1967) 579 Am still sitting on straw under our Tamboo, for it is raining again.
1918 W. Owen Let. 10 Oct. (1967) 582 The corrugated iron wall of my Tamboo.
1918 W. Owen Let. 31 Oct. (1967) 591 My servant & I ate the chocolate in the cold middle of last night, crouched under a draughty Tamboo, roofed with planks.
1925 Glasgow Herald 30 Mar. 10 That word was ‘tambu’, meaning a rough and ready shelter made of branches, planks, corrugated iron, a ‘bivvy’, in fact.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
tamboon.2
/ˈtambuː/ In full tamboo-bamboo. In the West Indies, a small drum made of bamboo. Frequently attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > other drums
taborinc1500
swash1533
war-drum1593
wolf-drum1605
saddle drum1617
tombak1662
tom-tom1693
goombay1790
rommelpot1790
rommelpot?1798
water drum1824
pahu1829
tabl1831
tambourin1832
dholuck1837
nagara1839
tree-drum1850
ngoma1860
talking drum1897
pot drum1907
friction drum1909
trap-drum1924
ghoema1934
tamboo1942
tassa1948
steel drum1952
conga drum1955
roto-tom1968
conga1969
Isukuti1972
steel pan1973
syndrum1979
1942 H. C. Gordon West Indian Scenes ii. iii. 57 The chief of these [instruments] for beating time was the tambou, a small drum.
1955 New Commonwealth 28 Nov. Suppl. p. xviii/2 They were not..allowed to make tambour (tamboo) bamboo bands.
1956 Caribbean Q. 4 iii. & iv. 195 Five to twenty stickmen formed a band..accompanied by drummers and/or tamboo bamboo bands.
1960 Times 17 Sept. 7/6 The three major influences on the development of the modern steel orchestra of Trinidad are the ‘tamboo-bamboo’ drum, the ‘bottle and spoon’, and the Indian drum and music of the Hosein festival.
1960 Times 17 Sept. 7/6 The tamboo-bamboo requires careful fashioning.
Derivatives
tamboo-bambooist n. one who plays the tamboo.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > drummer > of specific types of drum
taburnistera1340
tabor1362
tabreta1377
tympanister1382
nakerera1400
taborerc1400
taborner14..
kettledrum1542
tympanist1611
kettledrummer1683
tom-tommer1871
trap-drummer1903
Lambegger1938
timpanist1939
pan-man1959
tamboo-bambooist1959
steel drummer1960
1959 W. A. Simmonds ‘Pan’—Story of Steelband 8 ‘Hell-yard’, traditional headquarters of the Tamboo-bambooists of downtown Port-of-Spain.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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