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- English Word Drum Definition A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
- English Word Drum Definition The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
- English Word Drum Definition One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
- English Word Drum Definition A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
- English Word Drum Definition See Drumfish.
- English Word Drum Definition A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
- English Word Drum Definition A tea party; a kettledrum.
- English Word Drum Definition To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
- English Word Drum Definition 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.
- English Word Drum Definition To throb, as the heart.
- English Word Drum Definition To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
- English Word Drum Definition To execute on a drum, as a tune.
- English Word Drum Definition (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
- English Word Drum Definition (With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up customers.
- English Word Drum major Definition .
- English Word Drum major Definition The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.
- English Word Drum major Definition The marching leader of a military band.
- English Word Drum major Definition A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4.
- English Word Drumbeat Definition The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
- English Word Drumble Definition To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
- English Word Drumble Definition To mumble in speaking.
- English Word Drumfish Definition Any fish of the family Sciaenidae, which makes a loud noise by means of its air bladder; -- called also drum.
- English Word Drumhead Definition The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
- English Word Drumhead Definition The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.
- English Word Drumlin Definition A hill of compact, unstratified, glacial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.
- English Word Drumly Definition Turbid; muddy.
- English Word Drummed Definition of Drum
- English Word Drummer Definition One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
- English Word Drummer Definition One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
- English Word Drummer Definition A fish that makes a sound when caught