Obs. exc. Hist. Also 5–7 taberer, 6 tab(b)orer, tabourier, tabrer(e. [f. TABOR v. or sb. + -ER1. Cf. OF. taboreor (14th c.).] One who tabors; a drummer; a performer on the tabor.
c. 1400. Song Roland, 918. Trumpetis and taberers, sothe to say.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 170. Tabourers withe theyr mokkes and false dupplicité Please more these dayes.
c. 1537. Thersytes, in Four O. Pl. (1848), 79. The tryflinge tabborer trowbler of tunys.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., May, 22. Before them yode a lusty Tabrere, That to the many a Horne pype playd.
1610. Shaks., Temp., III. ii. 160. I would I could see this Taborer.
1885. Newcastle Chron., 25 May. The squire and his dame … attended by piper and taborer, looking on condescendingly.
