Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tabor

Tabor , noun

[Old French tabor, tabour, French tambour; compare Pr. tabor, tanbor, Sp. & Portuguese tambor, atambor, Italian tamburo; all from Arabic & Per. tamb{not transcribed}r a kind of lute, or giutar, or Per. tabīr a drum. Compare Tabouret, Tambour.]

(Music) A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, both being played by the same person.

Tabor , intransitive verb

[Compare Old French taborer.]

1.
To play on a tabor, or little drum.
2.
To strike lightly and frequently.

Tabor , transitive verb

To make (a sound) with a tabor.