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noun
A small shallow drum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A small shallow drum.
A drummer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
A circular frame for embroidery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The capital of a Corinthian column.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: architecture
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noun
Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: architecture
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Synonyms: drum
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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noun
a drum
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: drum, membranophone, tympan
noun
a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: embroidery frame, embroidery hoop
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Broader terms: framework
History
Borrowed from French tambour (“drum”), from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr), from the Middle Persian ancestor of Classical Persian تنبور (tanbūr). Doublet of tabor and tanbur. Compare Armenian տաւիղ (tawiġ), and tabla.
Across languages
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