A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.
A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat
resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion
of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a
frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.
A work usually in the form of a
redan, to inclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a
larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
A shallow metallic cup or
drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more
of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and
register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
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