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Ravel a little hard with tabor beating (6)

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I believe the answer is:

athrob

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'beating' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for athrob that I've seen before include "Pulsating" , "beating" , "Pulsing" , "all of a twitter" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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