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Drum Major :: Drum major () A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4..

Drummer :: Drummer (n.) A California sculpin.

Tympanist :: Tympanist (n.) One who beats a drum.

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery..

Drum :: Drum (v. i.) To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for..

Thrum :: Thrum (v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

Chamade :: Chamade (n.) A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.

Drum Major :: Drum major () .

Tap :: Tap (n.) A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, -- usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo..

Drum :: Drum (n.) Anything resembling a drum in for.

Drumhead :: Drumhead (n.) The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.

Drum Major :: Drum major () The marching leader of a military band.

Tam-tam :: Tam-tam (n.) A kind of drum used in the East Indies and other Oriental countries; -- called also tom-tom.

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Drumble :: Drumble (v. i.) To mumble in speaking.

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) A signal given in the army or navy, by the beat of a drum or the sounding of trumpet or bugle, at sunset (when the roll is called), or for retiring from action..

Drumly :: Drumly (a.) Turbid; muddy.

Kettledrummer :: Kettledrummer (n.) One who plays on a kettledrum.

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..

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