A small drum, used by the Biscayans as an accompaniment to the flageolet.

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.

A little box of timber work covered with a ceiling, within the porches of certain churches.

A round course of stones, several of which form the shaft of a pillar, not so high as a diameter.

In the arts, a species of embroidery, wrought on a kind of cushion or spherical body, which is properly the tambor, and so names from its resemblance to a drum.

To embroider with a tambor.