Results for tabour
Definitions of tabour:
part of speech: noun
A small drum beaten with one stick, used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife.
Usage examples for tabour:
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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)