taber

plural tabers

1. obsoleteentertainmentObsolete spelling of tabor.

present singular third person tabers · participle present tabering · participle past tabered · past tabered

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of tabor.

   It was during this interval that Humpback came half drunk before my shop, where he sung and tabered.

   One Thousand and One Nights

   (Can we date this quote?), Antoine Galland, transl., Les mille et une nuits, translation of أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ [ʔalfu laylatin walaylatun, One Thousand and One Nights] (in Arabic); translated as anonymous translator, Arabian Night's Entertainments, 12th edition, volume 2, London: printed for T. Longman, at the Ship in Paternoster-Row, 1706, published 1767, page 122

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   And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nahum 2:7

1. A surname.
2. A town in southern Alberta, Canada.
3. A municipal district in Alberta, which includes the town; in full, the Municipal District of Taber.