Drumbeat

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drumbeat \Drum"beat`\, n.
     The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping
           company with the hours, circles the earth with one


           continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of
           England.                                 --D. Webster.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drumbeat
       n 1: the sound made by beating a drum [syn: {rub-a-dub}, {rataplan}]
       2: (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering
          the flag at sundown
       3: a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; "the
          warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "drumbeat":
     barrage, beat, beating, drum, drum music, drumfire, drumming,
     flutter, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, pitapat, pitter-patter,
     pound, pounding, pulsation, rat-a-tat, rat-tat, rat-tat-tat,
     rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, spatter,
     splutter, sputter, staccato, tat-tat, tattoo, throb, throbbing,
     thrum, thumping, tom-tom