Usually means: Embroidering with a hooked needle.
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  1. tambouring: Merriam-Webster
  2. tambouring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tambouring: Wiktionary
  4. tambouring: Dictionary.com
  5. Tambouring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. Tambouring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. tambouring: FreeDictionary.org
  8. tambouring: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tambouring: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tambouring: Medical dictionary

(Note: See tambour as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tambour)

noun:  (music) A small shallow drum.
noun:  A circular frame for embroidery.
noun:  A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
noun:  Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
noun:  (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
noun:  (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
noun:  A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
▸ Also see tambour


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