tabor /ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/noun 3verb 2forms 3 noun3 •A small drum. •In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister, drest in their finest cloaths, and preceded by a pipe and tabor […] — 1766 •A military train of men and wagons; an encampment of such resources.A Polish-Lithuanian tabor besieged by twenty or thirty thousand Tartars must have closely resembled the overland wagon trains of American pioneers attacked by the Sioux or the Cherokee. — 2011 verb2 •To make (a sound) with a tabor. •To strike lightly and frequently. formstabored · taboring · tabors