▪ I. † ˈtaborn, tabroun, n. Obs.
Forms: 4 taborne, 4–5 taburn(e, 5–6 Sc. taberne, 6 Sc. tabro(u)n, tabberone, 7 tabern, Sc. tabbern; also Sc. 4 tawburn, 5 tawberne, talburn, 6 tau-, tawbron, tawbern, talbrone.
[A by-form of tabor, chiefly north. Eng. and Sc., in med.L. tabornum (Du Cange). The inserted n appears also in OF. taborner, tabourner vb. (see next). (The Sc. spellings taw-, tal- stand for a broad ā.)]
= tabor n.1, tabour, a drum.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter cl. 4 Taburn is made of a dryid scyn. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 1414 Tymbres & tabornes, tulket among. c 1400 Mandeville (Roxb.) xxxi. 138 Noyse as it ware of trumppes and tawburnez. a 1400–50 Alexander 1385 Now tynkyll vp taburnes. c 1450 Holland Howlat 760 The trumpe, and the talburn, the tympane but tray. 1513 Douglas æneis ix. x. 66 Wyth tympanis, tawbronis [ed. 1555 tawbernis], ȝe war wont to heyr. 1533 Bellenden Livy ii. xxvi. (S.T.S.) I. 238 With þe noyiss of swasche and tawberon. 1544 Acc. Ld. H. Treas. Scotl. VIII. 278 Twa men..quhilkis had thair tabronis brokin. 1552 Lyndesay Monarche i. 2505 With talbrone, troumpet, schalme, and clarioun. 1561 Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1875) III. 114 At the sound of the common bell, trumpet or tabroun. 1559–60 J. Wood Let. in Sir R. Sadler St. Papers (1809) II. 156 When they cam nere the towne, hard the commen bell and tabbern. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. xvi. (Roxb.) 57/1 The pipe belonging to the Tabern is much longer then the whisell or Flajalett. |
▪ II. † ˈtaborn, v. Obs.
Also 5 taburne.
[f. prec. or ad. OF. taborner, tabourner (12–14th c. in Godef.) = taborer.]
= tabor v., to drum.
| 13.. K. Alis. 1042 (Bodl. MS.) At þe fest was harpyng And pipyng & tabournyng. c 1400 Langl.'s P. Pl. B. xiii. 230 (MS. C), I can neither taborne ne trompe. 1483 Cath. Angl. 376/2 To Taburne, timpanizare. |