About The Word Tambour
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Tambour
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What's The Definition Of Tambour?
[n] a drum
[n] a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering Synonyms | Synonyms for Tambour: embroidery frame | embroidery hoop Related Terms | Find terms related to Tambour: See Also | drum | frame | framework | framing | membranophone | tympan Tambour In Webster's Dictionary \Tam"bour\, n.
1. (Mus.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
2. A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling
a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a
portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the
embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the
latter sense, {tambour work}.
3. (Arch.) Same as {Drum}, n., 2
(d) .
4. (Fort.) A work usually in the form of a redan, to inclose
a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a
larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
5. (Physiol.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin
elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more
of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used
to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of
any pulsating artery.
\Tam"bour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tamboured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tambouring}.] To embroider on a tambour. |
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