Tabor

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪbÉ™(r)

Full definition of tabor

Noun

1. 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

1. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.

Noun

1. 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.

Anagrams

• abort, boart