tabor/ˈteɪbə(ɹ)/EtymologyFrom German Tabor, from Czech tábor (“camp”).nameA place name:; Tábor (a city in the Czech Republic).A place name:; A city in Slovenia.A place name:; A village in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.A place name:; A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, Victoria, Australia, named after Tábor in Bohemia.A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in DeWitt County, Illinois.A place name:; A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Fremont County and Mills County, Iowa.nounA small drum.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 […]”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.”verbTo make (a sound) with a tabor.To strike lightly and frequently.