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tabors

tabors is the plural of tabor.

Meaning of tabor

Noun (1)

tabor (plural tabors)

  1. A small drum.
    1. 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

Noun (2)

tabor (plural tabors)

  1. 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

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Questions about tabors

What is tabors the plural of?
Tabors is the plural of tabor.

Words near tabors in the dictionary

  1. taborists
  2. Taborite
  3. Taborites
  4. Taborn
  5. Taborns
  6. tabors
  7. taboulah
  8. taboule
  9. tabouleh
  10. tabouli
  11. taboulis

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