Results for tabour

Definitions of tabour:

A small drum beaten with one stick, used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife.

Usage examples for tabour:

• The " Feu St. Jean" was solemnly lit by the senior sheriff, to the sound of pipe and tabour "The Story of Rouen", Sir Theodore Andrea Cook

• When Tom came home from labour, Or Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily, merrily went their tabour And nimbly went their toes. "The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'", Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

• Blow up the trumpets- Beat on the cymbals- Strike on the harpstrings- Let sound the psalteries- Thunder the tabour "The Piper and the Reed", Robert Norwood

• Now every lad is wondrous trim, And no man minds his labour; Our lasses have provided them A bagpipe and a tabour "Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton, Selected Poetry by George Wither, and Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock)", Nicholas Breton, George Wither, and William Browne (of Tavistock)