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plural tabors
A small drum. quotations examples
Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]
1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield
third-person singular simple present tabors, present participle taboring, simple past and past participle tabored
(transitive) To make (a sound) with a tabor. examples
To strike lightly and frequently. examples
A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources. quotations examples
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.
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269