Tabor
[teibә]
Definition
(n.) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.
(v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum.
(v. i.) To strike lightly and frequently.
(v. t.) To make (a sound) with a tabor.
Editor: Stu
Definition
n. a camp amongst the ancient nomadic Slavs and Turks inside a ring of wagons.
Edited by Jeanne
Examples
- Tabor stands solitary and alone, a giant sentinel above the Plain of Esdraelon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Our first engine compelled the inventing and making of a suitable engine indicator to indicate it--the Tabor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Barak came down from Mount Tabor, twenty or twenty-five miles from here, and gave battle to Jabin's forces, who were in command of Sisera. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We descended from Mount Tabor, crossed a deep ravine, followed a hilly, rocky road to Nazareth--distant two hours. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We reached Tabor safely, and considerably in advance of that old iron-clad swindle of a guard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Lancelot