taber
taber is the obsolete spelling of tabor.
Meaning of tabor
Noun (1)
tabor (plural tabors)
- 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.
- Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […]1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield
- 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.
Noun (2)
tabor (plural tabors)
- A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
- 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.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 269
Proper noun capitalized: Taber
Taber
Forms of taber
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tabers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tabers |
| present participle | tabering |
| past participle | tabered |
| past | tabered |
Questions about taber
- What does taber mean?
- Taber means a surname.
- What is taber the obsolete spelling of?
- Taber is the obsolete spelling of tabor.
- What part of speech is taber?
- Taber is a proper noun.
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