Obs. Forms: 4 taborne, 4–5 taburn(e, 5–6 Sc. taberne, 6 Sc. tabro(u)n, tabberone, 7 tabern, Sc. tabbern; also Sc. 4 tawburn, 5 tawberne, talburn, 6 tau-, tawbron, tawbern, talbrone. [A by-form of TABOR, chiefly north. Eng. and Sc., in med.L. tabornum (Du Cange). The inserted n appears also in OF. taborner, tabourner vb. (see next). (The Sc. spellings taw-, tal- stand for a broad ā.)] = TABOR sb.1, TABOUR, a drum.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, cl. 4. Taburn is made of a dryid scyn.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1414. Tymbres & tabornes, tulket among.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxxi. 138. Noyse as it ware of trumppes and tawburnez.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 1385. Now tynkyll vp taburnes.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 760. The trumpe, and the talburn, the tympane but tray.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. x. 66. Wyth tympanis, tawbronis [ed. 1555 tawbernis], ȝe war wont to heyr.
1533. Bellenden, Livy, II. xxvi. (S. T. S.), I. 238. With þe noyiss of swasche and tawberon.
1544. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl., VIII. 278. Twa men … quhilkis had thair tabronis brokin.
1552. Lyndesay, Monarche, I. 2505. With talbrone, troumpet, schalme, and clarioun.
1561. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1875), III. 114. At the sound of the common bell, trumpet or tabroun.
1559–60. J. Wood, Lett., in Sir R. Sadler, St. Papers (1809), II. 156. When they cam nere the towne, hard the commen bell and tabbern.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xvi. (Roxb.), 57/1. The pipe belonging to the Tabern is much longer then the whisell or Flajalett.
