tabor

plural tabors

1. entertainmentA small drum.
   1. entertainmentIn 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

present singular third person tabors · participle present taboring · participle past tabored · past tabored

1. transitiveTo make (a sound) with a tabor.
2. To strike lightly and frequently.

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

1. A place name:
   1. Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).
   2. A city in Slovenia.
   3. A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
   4. A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.
   5. An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.
   6. A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.
   7. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Polk County, Minnesota, derived from Tábor.
   8. A town in Bon Homme County, South Dakota, from Tábor.
2. A surname.

alternative Thabor

1. A mountain in Israel, Mount Tabor
2. metonymicallyChristianityThe Transfiguration of Jesus

   the light of Tabor

1. USabbreviationgovernmentAbbreviation of Taxpayer Bill of Rights.

   "I believe citizens of every community have the right to determine what's right for them," he said. "I don't think TABOR is a one-size fix. TABOR doesn't allow a community to determine where their future is going to go."

   2006 October 8, Susan M. Cover, “TABOR: A problem, or the solution?”, in Kennebec Journal, archived from the original on 27 May 2008