tabor

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tabor \Ta"bor\, v. t.
   To make (a sound) with a tabor.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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}.]
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To strike lightly and frequently.
      [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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.

from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

Tabor, choice; purity; bruising

from U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Tabor, IA (city, FIPS 76935)
  Location: 40.89382 N, 95.67209 W
  Population (1990): 957 (395 housing units)
  Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 51653
Tabor, SD (town, FIPS 62820)
  Location: 42.94766 N, 97.65968 W
  Population (1990): 403 (194 housing units)
  Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 57063

from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

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

from U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

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