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

Ruff :: Ruff (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum..

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle..

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..

Quadrumana :: Quadrumana (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone..

Thrum :: Thrum (v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table..

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

Urchin :: Urchin (n.) One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders, arranged around a carding drum; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog..

Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

Drum :: Drum (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout..

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

Drum Major :: Drum major () .

Indicator :: Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the pist

Recall :: Recall (n.) A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers are recalled from duty, labor, etc..

Monkey :: Monkey (n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs..

Drummer :: Drummer (n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching..

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..

Drummer :: Drummer (n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call..

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

Whim :: Whim (n.) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey..

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