DRUMMING
drumming
(noun) the act of playing drums; “he practiced his drumming several hours every day”
DRUM
cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam; “I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam”
drum
(verb) play a percussion instrument
drum, beat, thrum
(verb) make a rhythmic sound; “Rain drummed against the windshield”; “The drums beat all night”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
drumming (countable and uncountable, plural drummings)
The act of beating a drum.
A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.
In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.
Verb
drumming
present participle of drum
Source: Wiktionary
Drum"ming, n.
Definition: The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise
which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his
wings upon his sides.
DRUM
Drum, n. Etym: [Cf. D. trom, trommel, LG. trumme, G. trommel, Dan.
tromme, Sw. trumma, OHG. trumba a trumpet, Icel. pruma a clap of
thunder, and as a verb, to thunder, Dan. drum a booming sound, drumme
to boom; prob. partly at least of imitative origin; perh. akin to E.
trum, or trumpet.]
1. (Mus.)
Definition: An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow
cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or
vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere
(kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common
instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of
tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne.
2. Anything resembling a drum in form; as:
(a) A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming
an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a
cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
(b) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
(c) (Anat.) The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly,
applied to the tympanic membrane. (d) (Arch.)
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. (e) (Mach.)
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.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Drumfish.
4. A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private
house; a rout. [Archaic]
Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the
entertainment. Smollett.
Note: There were also drum major, rout, tempest, and hurricane,
differing only in degrees of multitude and uproar, as the significant
name of each declares.
5. A tea party; a kettledrum. G. Eliot. Bass drum. See in the
Vocabulary.
– Double drum. See under Double.
Drum, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drumming.]
1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum.
2. 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.
Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. W. Irving.
3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] Dryden.
4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or
secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
Drum, v. t.
1. To execute on a drum, as a tune.
2. (With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum
out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.
3. (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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition