TAMBOUR
tambour
(noun) a drum
tambour, embroidery frame, embroidery hoop
(noun) a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
tambour (countable and uncountable, plural tambours)
(obsolete, musical instruments) A small shallow drum.
A circular frame for embroidery.
A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
(architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
(architecture) synonym of drum
(military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
(biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
(sport) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
Verb
tambour (third-person singular simple present tambours, present participle tambouring, simple past and past participle tamboured)
(ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
Source: Wiktionary
Tam"bour, n.
1. (Mus.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
4. (Fort.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: 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.]
Definition: To embroider on a tambour.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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