English Dictionary

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band.
Source : opted (48318)  - auto

Anything resembling a drum in
Source : opted (48319)  - auto

A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.
Source : opted (48320)  - auto

A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.
Source : opted (48321)  - auto

The tympanum of the ear; -- often, but incorrectly, applied to the tympanic membrane.
Source : opted (48322)  - auto

One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.
Source : opted (48323)  - auto

A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound.
Source : opted (48324)  - auto

See Drumfish.
Source : opted (48325)  - auto

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout.
Source : opted (48326)  - auto

A tea party; a kettledrum.
Source : opted (48327)  - auto