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tabour
Part of speech: NounA small drum beaten with one stick, used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife.
Usage examples "tabour":- When Tom came home from labour, Or Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily, merrily went their tabour, And nimbly went their toes. - "The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'", Compiled by Frank Sidgwick.
- The " Feu St. Jean" was solemnly lit by the senior sheriff, to the sound of pipe and tabour. - "The Story of Rouen", Sir Theodore Andrea Cook.
- Blow up the trumpets- Beat on the cymbals- Strike on the harpstrings- Let sound the psalteries- Thunder the tabour! - "The Piper and the Reed", Robert Norwood.