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From: "Tania Mason" <>
Subject: RE: Occupations
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 09:33:53 +0200
In-Reply-To: <001c01c34038$37928000$3004cecb@sue>


Hi Sue

You can take your pick from the following, you didn't say if the
tambour -worker was male or female.

The Oxford English dictionary gives the following definitions for tambour.
1, 4 and 7 seem the most likely.

1. A drum; spec the great or bass drum.

2. An instrument for recording pulsations, as in respiration.
(possibly not in use before the 1890's)

3. (Also tambor) A fish which makes a drumming noise or which resembles
a drum in form; as a fish of the genus Pogonias, a drum-fish; a globe-fish,
or puffer; also the red rock-fish, Sebastodes rubber, of the cost of
California.

4a. A circular frame formed of one hoop fitted within another, in which
silk, muslin, or other material is stretched for embroidering.

4b A species of embroidery in which patterns are worked with a needle
of peculiar form on material stretched on a tambor-frame; now superseded by
pattern weaving; in recent use = tambour-lace see 8.

4c Kind of gold or silver thread.

5 Arch.

5a. The core of a Corinthian or Composite capital.

5b Any one of thee courses forming the shaft of a cylindrical column.

5c The wall of a circular building surrounded by columns.

5d A round exterior building surrounding the base of a dome or cupola;
also the circular vertical part of a cupola.

5e A lobby or vestibule enclosed with folding doors and ceiling, as
with the porch of a church, to prevent the direct passage of air, etc.

5f A projecting part of the wall of a tennis court.

6. Mil. A small defensive work formed of palisades or earth usually in
the form of a redan, to defend an entrance or passage.

7. A sliding, flexible shutter or door on a piece of furniture, made by
sticking narrow strips of wood to a backing of canvas.

8. Tambour-lace a modern lace resembling tambour , consisting of
needlework designs on machine-made net.

The nearest the OED has for quill winder is:-

Quill-turn, wheel, a wheel for winding spools.

There is also quillwork a type of embroidery, using the quills of a
porcupine, done by North American Indians.



-----Original Message-----
From: sue mclachlan [mailto:]
Sent: 02 July 2003 03:21
To:
Subject: Occupations

Does someone have any idea what a tambour worker could be?
Checked occupations sites suggested by Dianne Lord but no luck. Also perhaps
what a quill winder would do. (occupation of an 8yr old child).
Thanks Sue
Tamworth
NSW


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