tabret

Contraction of taboret.

tabret (plural tabrets)

1. A small tabor; a timbrel.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 216:

     The singing-girls beat their tabrets and lulliloo'd with joy[.]

2. (obsolete) A person who plays the tabor.

• Holy Bible, KJV: I Samuel 18:6 - "And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities and Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick."
• Holy Bible, KJV: Job 17:6 - "He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret."

• Tarbet, batter