tabor
    n 1: a small drum with one head of soft calfskin [syn: tabor,
         tabour]

Tabor \Ta"bor\, n. [OF. tabor, tabour, F. tambour; cf. Pr.
   tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Pg. tambor, atambor, It. tamburo; all
   fr. Ar. & Per. tamb?r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per.
   tab[imac]r a drum. Cf. Tabouret, Tambour.] (Mus.)
   A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both
   being played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and
   taber.]
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Tabor \Ta"bor\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tabored; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Taboring.] [Cf. OF. taborer.] [Written also tabour.]
   1. To play on a tabor, or little drum.
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   2. To strike lightly and frequently.
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Tabor \Ta"bor\, v. t.
   To make (a sound) with a tabor.
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Tabor
   a height. (1.) Now Jebel et-Tur, a cone-like prominent mountain,
   11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It is about 1,843 feet
   high. The view from the summit of it is said to be singularly
   extensive and grand. This is alluded to in Ps. 89:12; Jer.
   46:18. It was here that Barak encamped before the battle with
   Sisera (q.v.) Judg. 4:6-14. There is an old tradition, which,
   however, is unfounded, that it was the scene of the
   transfiguration of our Lord. (See HERMON.) "The
   prominence and isolation of Tabor, standing, as it does, on the
   border-land between the northern and southern tribes, between
   the mountains and the central plain, made it a place of note in
   all ages, and evidently led the psalmist to associate it with
   Hermon, the one emblematic of the south, the other of the
   north." There are some who still hold that this was the scene of
   the transfiguration (q.v.).
   
     (2.) A town of Zebulum (1 Chr. 6:77).
   
     (3.) The "plain of Tabor" (1 Sam. 10:3) should be, as in the
   Revised Version, "the oak of Tabor." This was probably the
   Allon-bachuth of Gen. 35:8.
   

Tabor, choice; purity; bruising

Tabor, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
   Population (2000):    993
   Housing Units (2000): 416
   Land area (2000):     1.277398 sq. miles (3.308445 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1.277398 sq. miles (3.308445 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            76935
   Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
   Location:             40.896605 N, 95.672368 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     51653
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Tabor, IA
    Tabor

Tabor, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    417
   Housing Units (2000): 201
   Land area (2000):     0.363433 sq. miles (0.941287 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.363433 sq. miles (0.941287 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            62820
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             42.947641 N, 97.658104 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     57063
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Tabor, SD
    Tabor