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/drˈəmɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Drumming 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.

verb

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.

Drum v. i. (past & past part. drummed; pres. part. 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."

3.

To throb, as the heart. (R.)

4.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; with for.

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Etymology of 'Drumming'

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"Drumming" Quotes from Famous Books

... the great bell of Tokoji the Zenshu temple, shakes over the town; then come melancholy echoes of drumming from the tiny little temple of Jizo in the street Zaimokucho, near my house, signalling the Buddhist hour of morning prayer. And finally the cries of the earliest itinerant venders begin—'Daikoyai! ...

— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn

... stood silent, drumming tattoos on the table, not pleased with the turn of the matter, not seeing how to better it. Had we been sure of our suspicions, we would have charged him, pistol or no pistol, trusting that our quickness would prevent his shooting, ...

— Helmet of Navarre • Bertha Runkle

... in our saddles many shots came from the roof—from rifles thrust through the thatch. Upon this we rode across the valley of stones, and men fired at us from the nullah behind the house, and from the hill behind the nullah, as well as from the roof of the house—so many shots that it sounded like a drumming in the hills. Then Sikandar Khan, riding low, said, "This play is not for us alone, but for the rest of the Durro Muts," and I said, "Be quiet. Keep place!" for his place was behind me, and I rode behind Kurban Sahib. But these new bullets will pass through five men arow! ...

— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... smiled, "there is. There are trunks up there full of all manner of things that five generations of Churchills could not bear to burn or give away. Some day when the rain is drumming on the roof and the gutters are spouting and all the birds are tucked away in dripping trees and the world is misty with tears, I'm going up there and just revel in second-hand adventure, dead ...

— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds

... time in the library one afternoon, the Director and a Swiss Brother sitting by the lamp reading, I standing at one of the tall, narrow windows, drumming on the panes and dreaming. The view was not an inspiring one. There was a long horizontal line of pale yellow sky and another of flat, black land, out of Avhich an occasional poplar raised itself solemnly. ...

— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various

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