Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TAM'BOR, n. [Sp. and Port. tambor, a drum; It. tamburo. The m is probably casual. See Tabor.]

1. A small drum, used by the Biscayans as an accompaniment to the flageolet. Cyc.
2. In architecture, a term applied to the Corinthian and Composite capitals, which bear some resemblance to a drum. It is also called the vase, and campana, or the bell.
3. A little box of timber work covered with a ceiling, within the porches of certain churches.
4. A round course of stones, several of which form the shaft of a pillar, not so high as a diameter.
5. In the arts, a species of embroidery, wrought on a kind of cushion or spherical body, which is properly the tambor, and so named from its resemblance to a drum.