drum
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- n a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- n the sound of a drum
he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes - n a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- n a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
- n a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
- n small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- v make a rhythmic sound
Rain drummed against the windshield
The drums beat all night - v play a percussion instrument
- v study intensively, as before an exam
- At 18 months, Bernard Rich was car ried onstage by the seat of his pants to play drums in his parents' vaudeville act.
- For years the doomful sound of drumming in the Congo night struck white men weak with fright.
- Any pulp writer worth his salt knows that when his locale is darkest Africa he can't use too many drums.