Word
Tambour
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
tam-bour
Definition
- n. - A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- v. t. - To embroider on a tambour.
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