taborer

From tabor + -er.

taborer (plural taborers)

1. One who plays on the tabor.

   Synonym: taborist

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Lead, monster, we'll follow. I would I could see this taborer; he lays it on.

• “taborer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Barreto, Roberta, aborter, arboret