Drumming

6 definitions found

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

  Drum \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.
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     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.
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              Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.
                                                    --W. Irving.
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     3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden.
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     4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to
        draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drumming \Drum"ming\, n.
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drum
       n 1: a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a
            hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
            [syn: {membranophone}, {tympan}]
       2: the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he
          heard the fifes"
       3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: {barrel}]
       4: a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage
          of liquids [syn: {metal drum}]
       5: a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms
          part of the brakes [syn: {brake drum}]
       6: small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes
          of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming
          noise [syn: {drumfish}]
       v 1: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the
            windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: {beat}, {thrum}]
       2: play a percussion instrument
       3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on
          my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: {cram}, {grind
          away}, {bone up}, {swot}, {get up}, {mug up}, {swot up}, {bone}]
       [also: {drumming}, {drummed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drumming
       n : the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several
           hours every day"

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drumming
       See {drum}

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

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "drumming":
     arrhythmia, bang, barrage, bash, bat, beat, beating, belt, biff,
     blinding, blow, bonk, cat-and-doggish, chop, clicking, clip, clout,
     clump, crack, cut, dash, dig, dint, drippy, driving, drizzling,
     drizzly, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire,
     flutter, fluttering, fusillade, heartbeat, heartthrob, hit, jab,
     knock, lick, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, palpitant, palpitation,
     paradiddle, patter, pelt, pelting, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk,
     pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, poke, pound, pounding, pouring,
     pulsation, pulse, punch, rainy, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat,
     rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rhythm, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff,
     ruffle, showery, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, sock, spatter,
     spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato,
     streaming, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo,
     throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack,
     ticking, tom-tom, whack, whop, yerk