Crossword clues for drumhead
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drumhead \Drum"head`\, n.
The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
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The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.
Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of drum head English)
WordNet
adj. performed speedily and without formality; "a summary execution"; "summary justice" [syn: summary]
n. a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum [syn: head]
Wikipedia
A drumhead is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum.
Drumhead may also refer to:
- Drumhead (sign), a type of circular sign that was used on many railroads
- Drumhead court-martial, a court-martial which takes place on the battlefield
- " The Drumhead," an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Drumhead, a drumming magazine
- Drumhead, Nova Scotia
- Eardrum, the membrane present in the ear.
The term drumhead refers to a type of removable sign that was prevalent on North American railroads of the first half of the 20th century. The sign was mounted at the rear of passenger trains, and consisted of a box with internal illumination that shone through a tinted panel bearing the logo of the railroad or specific train. Since the box and the sign were usually circular in shape and resembled small drums, they came to be known as drumheads.
Railroad drumheads were removable so that they could be mounted on different passenger cars (usually on the rear of observations), as needed for specific trains.
Zephyr observation end.jpg|The observation car on the Nebraska Zephyr at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois, showing a rectangular drumhead. Coast Limited drumhead.JPG|A closeup of a drumhead used on the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad. drumhead display.jpg|A display of several railroad drumheads at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Albert Park.jpg| Via Rail's Prince Albert Park car on The Canadian, showing off its drumhead
Usage examples of "drumhead".
In the torchlight, the drumhead had the russet hue of well-tanned oxhide, but a sheen as of tiny scales hinted of some other origin.
If the drumhead would support his weight until he had won life and freedom for himself and Valeria, he did not much care if it was made of the hide of creatures from the moon!
Instead, he gripped the edge of the drum, flexed at the knees, and soared onto the drumhead in a single leap.
So was Aondo, and the sweat of both men was pouring onto the already-smooth drumhead, causing their footing to be even less certain.
At unpredictable intervals, the Ichiribu warrior would fling himself down on his knees, or even on his belly, then slap the drumhead with both massive hands to begin his rise.
These gestures gave the drumhead whole new kinds of movement, also unpredictable.
Conan, the world had shrunk to the drumhead and the man who stood on it with him.
Rolling, he rolled again onto his hands and knees, thrust hands and feet hard against the drumhead, and rebounded into the air.
Conan shifted his footing, so that now the leaping drumhead slowly pushed him away from the rim.
Instead, he dropped even farther, slamming the drumhead with his massive chest.
The reason I prefer to use a portion of the cabbage food in the form of manure, is, that I have noticed that when the attempt is made to raise the larger drumhead varieties on fertilizers only, the cabbages, just as the heads are well formed, are apt to come nearly to a standstill.
They appear to lack in this country the sweetness and tenderness that characterize some varieties of our drumhead, and, consequently, in the North when the drumhead enters the market there is but a limited call for them.
In England the drumhead class are almost wholly raised to feed to stock.
I venture the conjecture that owing in part, or principally, to the fact European gardeners have never had the motive, and, consequently, have never developed the full capacity of the drumhead as exampled by the fine varieties raised in this country.
For this reason English drumhead cabbage seed is better suited to raise a mass of leaves than heads, and always disappoints our American farmers who buy it because it is cheap with the expectation of raising cabbage for market.