Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tambourine \Tam`bour*ine"\, n. [F. tambourin; cf. It. tamburino.
See Tambour, and cf. Tamborine.]
A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin,
played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a
timbrel.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Tambourine \Tam`bour*ine"\, n.
A South American wild dove (Tympanistria tympanistria),
mostly white, with black-tiped wings and tail. Its resonant
note is said to be ventriloquous.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tambourine
n 1: a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic
disks in the sides