tambours

1. A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
2. Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.

   Replace the drum unit of your printer.

3. A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.

   The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums.

4. The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
5. Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
6. A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
7. A tip; a piece of information.

noun

A small hill or ridge of hills.

1. A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
2. A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.

1. A small shallow drum.
2. A circular frame for embroidery.
3. A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
4. Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
5. The capital of a Corinthian column.
6. A 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.
7. A 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.
8. In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.