1. n. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
2. n. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
3. n. In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.
4. n. (obsolete or historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
5. n. (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola
6. n. (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar
7. n. A drumfish.
8. n. (slang) A person's home.
9. n. (AU slang) A tip, a piece of information.
10. v. (intransitive) To beat a drum.
11. v. To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
12. v. To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
13. v. To throb, as the heart.
14. v. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
15. n. A small hill or ridge of hills.
tambour
tambour
1. n. (obsolete) drum
2. n. a circular frame for embroidery
3. n. (architecture) the capital of a Corinthian column
4. n. (military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
5. n. (biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements o
6. n. (sport) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall
7. v. To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
tabor
tabor
1. n. A small drum.
2. n. In 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.
3. v. To make (a sound) with a tabor.
4. v. To strike lightly and frequently.
5. n. A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.
