ˈtaborer Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 5–7 taberer, 6 tab(b)orer, tabourier, tabrer(e.
[f. tabor v. or n. + -er1. Cf. OF. taboreor (14th c.).]
One who tabors; a drummer; a performer on the tabor.
| c 1400 Song Roland 918 Trumpetis and taberers, sothe to say. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 170 Tabourers withe theyr mokkes and false dupplicité Please more these dayes. c 1537 Thersytes in Four O. Pl. (1848) 79 The tryflinge tabborer trowbler of tunys. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 22 Before them yode a lusty Tabrere, That to the many a Horne pype playd. 1610 Shakes. Temp. iii. ii. 160, I would I could see this Taborer. 1885 Newcastle Chron. 25 May, The squire and his dame..attended by piper and taborer, looking on condescendingly. |