1.
[syn: tabor, tabour]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tabor \Ta"bor\, n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr.
tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all
fr. Ar. & Per. tamb?r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per.
tab[imac]r a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.] (Mus.)
A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both
being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and
taber.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tabor \Ta"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Taboring.] [Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.]
1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
[1913 Webster]
2. To strike lightly and frequently.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tabor \Ta"bor\, v. t.
To make (a sound) with a tabor.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tabor
n 1: a small drum with one head of soft calfskin [syn: tabor,
tabour]
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:
Tabor
a height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain,
11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet
high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly
extensive and grand. This is alluded to in Ps. 89:12; Jer.
46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with
Sisera (q.v.) Judg. 4:6-14. There is an old tradition, which,
however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the
transfiguration of our Lord. (See HERMON.) "The
prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the
border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between
the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in
all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with
Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the
north." There are some who still hold that this was the scene of
the transfiguration (q.v.).
(2.) A town of Zebulum (1 Chr. 6:77).
(3.) The "plain of Tabor" (1 Sam. 10:3) should be, as in the
Revised Version, "the oak of Tabor." This was probably the
Allon-bachuth of Gen. 35:8.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):
Tabor, choice; purity; bruising
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Tabor, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 993
Housing Units (2000): 416
Land area (2000): 1.277398 sq. miles (3.308445 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.277398 sq. miles (3.308445 sq. km)
FIPS code: 76935
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 40.896605 N, 95.672368 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51653
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tabor, IA
Tabor
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Tabor, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 417
Housing Units (2000): 201
Land area (2000): 0.363433 sq. miles (0.941287 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.363433 sq. miles (0.941287 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62820
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 42.947641 N, 97.658104 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57063
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tabor, SD
Tabor