Starr-struck object?

Usage examples of drum.

After a mere heartbeat of stillness, Abie could just barely make out the steady roll of a drum.

Chemical rockets in the nose fired to slow it, dirty ablation smoke was pouring out of all ninety-six brake drums.

The fireball also blew the aft stack apart, and with it the number-two boiler, which caused a steam explosion from the idling high-pressure steam drum.

Annamaria Roccaro was the last to get into position, smiling in apology as she crowded next to Aiken Drum and felt the hard tools in his pockets pressing through the sleeves and skirts of her habit.

I think perhaps the Hunt would appeal to your particular sporting instinct, Aiken Drum.

Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And ring aloud the knell of Gaveston!

But who sent the moth and allowed it, in the midst of a late-summer thunderstorm roaring like a high school principal, to make me fall in love with the drum my mother had promised me and develop my aptitude for it?

The soft, arrhythmic beat of steel drum bands and bird song welcomed them to the festivities.

The chanting was picked up by others, and soon most of the people were deeply involved in a mesmerizing sequence that consisted of repetitive phrases sung in a pulsating beat with little change in tone, alternating with arrhythmic drumming that had more tonal variation than the voices.

His heart was pounding inside his chest like a small drum, not in its usual steady march but in a wild, arrhythmic abandon.

From a chamber on the right, near a winding staircase covered with blue-and-white tiles, came the sound of laughter, of song, and of a hideous music conveyed to the astonied ear by pipes and drums.

He is attended as if he were a prince, with drums and atabals, and servants on horse and foot, and brings with him letters of credence from Saladin.

Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.

Sophia, whom the fellow, as he was attending his master with his drum the day before, had seen pass by.

Issicore, who after all was an empty kind of drum, Baas, and only made a noise when you hit him--a little noise for a small tap, Baas, and a big noise for a bang.