tabor1, tabour (tabor)

[Formerly also ta ber; bour = Pr. tabor, tanbor = Sp. tambor = OSp. Pg. atambor (Sp. Pg. a- or timbrel. Vor of trompes & of tabors the Saracens made there So gret noyse that Christen men al des tour bed were. Rob. of Gloucester (ed. Hearne, 1810), p. 396. If you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 183. To hunt for hares with a tabort. See harel. tabor1, tabour (ta'bor), v . [Formerly also ta ber ; taboren , taborer , tabourer , tabor, drum; from the noun.] I. in trans. play upon or as upon a tabor; drum. In your court is many a losengeour,... That tabouren in your eres many a soun, Right after hir imaginacioun. To Chaucer , Good Women, 1. 354. Her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, ta bering upon their breasts. Nah. ii. 7. II. trans. To beat as a tabor; drum upon. I'd tabor her. Fletcher , Tamer Tamed, ii. 5.