(n.) 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.
(n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d).
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To embroider on a tambour.
Example Sentences:
(1) A method for continuous registration of perfusion rate of frog blood vessels has been developed utilizing a modified Marey's tambour with lever system, connected to the perfusion bottle.
(2) Flight Out of Egypt has a huge crowd of figures at what seems like a desert oasis – to the left there is a rhythmic forest of plumed lances held by horsemen and camel riders, to the right tents and groups of Arabs (including a tambour dancer based on an image at Pompeii).
(3) Intracranial pressure sensors and subdural and subgaleal sensing tambours were used to measure the pressure difference between the intracranial and subgaleal spaces in two monkeys.
(4) Redesign to decrease tambour permeability should allow a useful life of months or years.
(5) Autopsy findings confirmed that the sensing tambours became encapsulated with a pseudomembrane that did not attenuate the pressure signal.