Crossword clues for drummed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drumming.]
To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
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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.
Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.
--W. Irving. To throb, as the heart. [R.]
--Dryden.To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: drum)
WordNet
n. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end [syn: membranophone, tympan]
the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel]
a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids [syn: metal drum]
a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes [syn: brake drum]
small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise [syn: drumfish]
v. make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: beat, thrum]
play a percussion instrument
study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]
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Usage examples of "drummed".
I have just drummed away a long morning, asking my drum all sorts of questions.
I took up the simple rhythm, which was not without charm, and drummed my way from start to finish, through the little pieces and through Mrs.
Tearing myself away from the clouds which obviously had no school that day, I leapt to my feet, pulled my drumsticks out from under my suspenders, and loudly, emphatically, drummed out the time of the song.
I left my glass-destroying voice at home and bore it meekly when Gretchen expressed the opinion that I had drummed enough for now and, baring her equine gold teeth in a smile, removed my drum from my knees and laid it among the teddy bears.
As soon as my uniformed father was out of sight and before the civilian, whom I already looked upon as my presumptive father, should arrive, I consequently slipped out of the house and drummed my way toward the Maiwiese.
I must answer in the negative, and I hope that you too, you who are not inmates of mental hospitals, will regard me as nothing more than an eccentric who, for private and what is more esthetic reasons, though to be sure the advice of Bebra my mentor had something to do with it, rejected the cut and color of the uniforms, the rhythm and tone of the music normally played on rostrums, and therefore drummed up a bit of protest on an instrument that was a mere toy.
Brenntau, they all say, the lovers say it and our customers say so too: The gnome drummed her into her grave.
I had only my drum to turn to, I beat out my loneliness on its once white surface, now drummed thin.
First I drummed a little and counted the knotholes in the floorboards.
I no longer knew if it was I who drummed or if it was Maria or if it was my moss or her moss.
If I remember aright, I even drummed a few measures of Strauss and enjoyed it.
And, all of a sudden, the drumming matched her own thudding heartbeat, and the little instrument in her hand suddenly came alive, not merely humming in harmony with the ceremony but awake, speaking in the same tones as her heartbeat as if actually drummed by the blood in her veins.
Once again Potter appeared out of nowhere, drummed for the second half of the show, then disappeared as suddenly as he had arrived, leaving insanity behind him.
Feet drummed on hard earth, men screamed in sheer animal delight, and spears clashed on shields.
The rain drummed on the pavement, and the water ran like a little stream down the gully of the street, purring and splashing between the low walls that divided the road from the buildings.