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Part of a band's gear
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drum
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ...
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Drum is a 1976 American film based on the Kyle Onstott novel of the same name. It was released by United Artists and is a sequel to the film Mandingo , released in 1975. The film stars Warren Oates , Pam Grier , Ken Norton , and was directed by Steve Carver ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from drum (n.). To drum (up) business, etc., is American English 1839, from the old way of drawing a crowd.
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.