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Drum

noun

1.

A musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end. Synonyms: membranophone, tympan.

2.

The sound of a drum.

3.

A bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends. Synonym: barrel.

4.

A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids. Synonym: metal drum.

5.

A hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes. Synonym: brake drum.

6.

Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise. Synonym: drumfish.

verb

(past & past part. drummed; pres. part. drumming)

1.

Make a rhythmic sound. Synonyms: beat, thrum. "The drums beat all night"

2.

Play a percussion instrument.

3.

Study intensively, as before an exam. Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.

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"Drum" Quotes from Famous Books

... summit, halting at times to peer up through the wild whirls of spray at the veiled grandeur of the fall, or to listen to the thunder beneath me; the whole hill was sounding as if it were a huge, bellowing drum. I hoped that by waiting until the fall was blown aslant I should be able to climb to the lip of the crater and get a view of the interior; but a suffocating blast, half air, half water, followed ...

— The Yosemite • John Muir

... a Salvation Army man as come and asked me if I accepted the Gospel. 'Yes, my lad,' I sez; 'I've accepted it—but only as a thing to smoke, not as a thing to go bangin' about. Put your drum in the cup-board, my lad,' I sez; 'and put the Gospel in your pipe, and you'll be ...

— Mad Shepherds - and Other Human Studies • L. P. Jacks

... been strange and alarming. Confound the moth! and Pawkins! However, it was a pity to lose the moth now. He felt his way into the hall and found the matches, after sending his hat down upon the floor with a noise like a drum. With the lighted candle he returned to the sitting-room. No moth was to be seen. Yet once for a moment it seemed that the thing was fluttering round his head. Hapley very suddenly decided to give up the moth and ...

— The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories • H. G. Wells

... leased an expensive suite at an apartment hotel near the Fabians, and much to little Mr. Alexander's joy, although much to Mrs. Alexander's disgust, they settled down to a hum-drum life that winter. She sighed as she referred to ...

— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... stop over the center of Penguin Deep where we were to gamble our lives in a game with Neptune. Sea anchors were rigged to lessen our drift and the donkey engine was geared to the first cable drum. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various

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