/tam"boor, tam boor"/ , n.
1. Music. a drum.
2. a drum player.
3. Also called tabaret . a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering.
4. embroidery done on such a frame.
5. Furniture. a flexible shutter used as a desk top or in place of a door, composed of a number of closely set wood strips attached to a piece of cloth, the whole sliding in grooves along the sides or at the top and bottom.
6. Archit. drum 1 (def. 10).
7. Court Tennis. a sloping buttress opposite the penthouse, on the hazard side of the court.
v.t. , v.i.
8. to embroider on a tambour.
[ 1475-85; tanbur lute pandoúra; cf. BANDORE ]