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a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

play a percussion instrument

a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end

a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids

the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"

play the drums

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

Anything resembling a drum in form

A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

See Drumfish.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

A tea party; a kettledrum.

To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

To throb, as the heart.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for.

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.

Anything resembling a drum in form

A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.

See Drumfish.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.

A tea party; a kettledrum.

To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.

To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings.

To throb, as the heart.

To execute on a drum, as a tune.

(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; - with for.

To throb, as the heart.

A musical instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with velium or dried skins stretched across the ends, and beaten with sticks; the membrane or skin of the inner ear; a drum-shaped box for figs; a cylinder or revolving shaft.

To beat a drum; beat rapidly with the fingers: to make a noise like that of a beaten drum.

To play (a tune) on the drum; to gather together, as customers: with up; to repeat constantly; as, to drum a complaint into one's ears.

Drummed.

Drumming.

A Celtic word signifying a round knoll, a ridge, a small hill. It enters into the composition of many place-names, especially in Ireland and Scotland, as Drumcondra, Drumglass, Drumsheugh, Drumlanrig, Drumoak, and is frequently found alone as the name of a farm, estate, village, and the like.

A cylindrical musical instrument: anything shaped like a drum: the tympanum or middle portion of the ear: (arch.) the upright part of a cupola: (mech.) a revolving cylinder: the name formerly given to a fashionable and crowded evening party in England, at which card-playing appears to have been the chief attraction: a rout. The more riotous of such assemblies were styled drum-majors. "Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment."-Smollett. "They were all three to go together to the opera, and thence to Lady Thomas Hatchet's drum."-Fielding.

To beat a drum: to beat with the fingers.

To drum out, to expel:-pr.p. drumming; pa.p. drummed'.

DRUMMER.

Musical instrument of percussion; tympanum of the ear; revolving cylinder.

To beat a drunm.

To play on a drum; beat a drum.

A hollow cylinder, the ends of which are covered with skin. to be beaten with drumsticks.

A cylindrical organ. as the thympanum, or middle ear.

A martial instrument of music in form of a hollow cylinder and covered at the ends with vellum, which is stretched or slackened at pleasure; a quantity packed in the form of a drum, as a drum of figs; sheet-iron in the shape of a drum to receive heat from a stove-pipe; the tympanum or barrel of the ear; the hollow part of the ear behind the membrane of the tympanum; a short revolving cylinder, generally for the purpose of turning several small wheels by means of straps passing round it; the upright part of a cupola, either above or below a dome; the vase of a Corinthian or composite capital; a large evening party of a somewhat tumultuous description fashionable at one time.

To play on a drum; to expel with beat of drum; to beat up for customers.

To beat or play a tune on a drum; to beat with the flagers, as on a table; to beat, as the heart; to seek to attract and gather, as by going round with a drum.

A musical instrument, hollow, round, and flat at the two ends, which are covered with parchment or vellum; in machinery, a short cylinder moving on an axis; anything resembling a drum in form.

To beat or play on a drum.

The tympanum of the ear.

The tympanic cavity of the ear.

Any closed hollow structure having one or more tense membranous walls. [Mid. Eng]

n. [Old Saxon] An instrument of military music, consisting of a hollow cylinder or hemisphere, upon which vellum is stretched, to be beaten with a stick;—any thing resembling a drum in form: —a small cylindrical box in which figs &c. are packed; —the tympanum or barrel of the ear;—the upright part of a cupola, either above or below a dome; — a short cylinder revolving on an axis for the transmission of motion;—a genus of fishes which make a drumming or grunting sound under water; —an evening assembly; a rout.

An instrument of military musick; the tympanum of the ear.