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  tabor

  noun

  a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.
• Tabor
  Tabor

  noun

  Mount, a mountain in N Israel, E of Nazareth. 1,929 feet (588 meters).

tabor

¹ American  

[tay-ber] / ˈteɪ bər /

Or taber,

noun

1. a small drum formerly used to accompany oneself on a pipe or fife.

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verb (used without object)

1. to play upon or as if upon a tabor; drum.

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or beat, as on a tabor.

Tabor ² American  

[tay-ber] / ˈteɪ bər /

noun

1. Mount, a mountain in N Israel, E of Nazareth. 1,929 feet (588 meters).

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Tabor ¹ British  

/ ˈteɪbə /

noun

1. a mountain in N Israel, near Nazareth: traditionally regarded as the mountain where the Transfiguration took place. Height: 588 m (1929 ft)

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tabor ² British  

/ ˈteɪbə /

noun

1. music a small drum used esp in the Middle Ages, struck with one hand while the other held a three-holed pipe See pipe 1

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Other Word Forms

• taborer
  noun
• tabourer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of tabor

First recorded in 1250–1300; (noun) Middle English, from Old French tab(o)ur; see tambour; (verb) Middle English tabouren, derivative of the noun or from Old French taborer, derivative of tab(o)ur

Example Sentences

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Cross-dressed women, star-crossed lovers and someone pestering a pipe and tabor is most of what I want out of a midsummer night at the theater.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017

Nobody says the words authentic, historical, or—despite the lute and tabor processions led by jesters—medieval.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2013

As a practical politician he doubtless realizes that an "open shop " campaign has little chance of success in a rising tabor market.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

A young fellow somersaulted backward from the cart to the sound of drumming, while a fat man wearing a red jerkin and bells on his trousers danced a jig, and another played the tabor.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Prosecutors said the incident occurred less than 14 hours after Tabor was released from custody on mandatory supervision, after he completed his sentence for two separate Ventura County criminal cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

“As of 1855, construction of overland telegraph systems had become standardized,” Mr. Tabor writes, but “no such standard existed for submarine telegraph lines, especially those running through salt water.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

He devoted many years and much effort to his dream, Mr. Tabor writes, because Field “believed from the very beginning that wiring the globe would usher in a new age of world peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Ania Tabor said the construction work required to bring the Glider to Glengormley would have been a "nightmare" for drivers.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025

In Canaan also the mountain summits were sacred to this deity; in the south of the land the lonely peak of Casius on the Serbonian lake, then Carmel, Tabor, and Hermon.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker