tambour

1. (music) A small shallow drum.countableuncountable

2. (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.countableuncountable

3. (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).Synonyms: drumcountableuncountable

4. (military) 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.countableuncountable

5. (medicine) 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.countableuncountable

6. (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.Examples: "One hazard is the tambour, a buttress which juts out and causes the ball to bounce unpredictably."countableuncountable