Definitions
1.NounA small shallow drum.
2.NounA circular frame for embroidery.
3.NounA rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4.NounSilk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5.NounThe capital of a Corinthian column.
6.NounSynonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
7.NounA work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
8.NounA shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
9.NounIn real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
10.NounA rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
11.VerbTo embroider on a tambour (circular frame).