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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..

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff..

Tympanic :: Tympanic (a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane..

Roll :: Roll (v.) The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse..

Nardoo :: Nardoo (n.) An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food..

Rattle :: Rattle (n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum..

Monkey :: Monkey (n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs..

Tabor :: Tabor (v. i.) To play on a tabor, or little drum..

Gin :: Gin (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim..

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) Same as Drum, n., 2(d)..

Drumstick :: Drumstick (n.) A stick with which a drum is beaten.

Assembly :: Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

Fourhanded :: Fourhanded (a.) Having four hands; quadrumanous.

Drum :: Drum (n.) A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed..

Sound :: Sound (n.) The peceived object occasioned by the impulse or vibration of a material substance affecting the ear; a sensation or perception of the mind received through the ear, and produced by the impulse or vibration of the air or other medium with which the ear is in contact; the effect of an impression made on the organs of hearing by an impulse or vibration of the air caused by a collision of bodies, or by other means; noise; report; as, the sound of a drum; the sound of the human voice; a h

Capstan :: Capstan (n.) A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable, passing around the drum. It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan, each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket..

Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..

Rigger :: Rigger (n.) A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.

Catarrhine :: Catarrhine (n.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey..

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