A membrane that is stretched taut over a drum

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.