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Tabor vs Tabour - What's the difference?

tabor | tabour |

As nouns the difference between tabor and tabour

is that tabor is 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 while tabour is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As verbs the difference between tabor and tabour

is that tabor is to make (a sound) with a tabor while tabour is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As a proper noun Tabor

is tábor (city in the Czech Republic.

tabor

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tabour.

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    (en verb)
  • To make (a sound) with a tabor.
  • To strike lightly and frequently.

    • Etymology 2

    From various Slavic languages, from Turkish.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

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    tabour

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (musical instruments)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
    • “Keep your gold for those who lack it, mistress,” said Henry, “and do not offer to honest hands the money that is won by violing, and tabouring , and toetripping, and perhaps worse pastimes.

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