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Drumming   /drˈəmɪŋ/   Listen
Drumming

noun
1.
The act of playing drums.


Drum

verb
(past & past part. drummed; pres. part. drumming)
1.
Make a rhythmic sound.  Synonyms: beat, thrum.  "The drums beat all night"
2.
Play a percussion instrument.
3.
Study intensively, as before an exam.  Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.



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"Drumming" Quotes from Famous Books



... some Irish and Scotch airs, in poor settings, and with much stumbling. After a little, Fenwick listened restlessly, his brow frowning, his fingers drumming on the arm of his chair. They were all glad when it ...
— Fenwick's Career • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... to occupy a seat which he may not keep, to listen to debates whose conclusion he is likely not to hear, to implant in his eyes and ears the delightful memory of parliamentary sessions, with their ocean of bald or apoplectic heads, the endless noise of crumpled paper, the shouts of the pages, the drumming of paper knives on the tables, and the hum of private conversations, above which the orator's voice soars in a timid or vociferous solo ...
— The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet
... clearly that I should not have written that which I had written. But his God was an energetic, enterprising, kindly Prince, rather bold himself and tolerant of heathen. Fray Juan Perez even intimated a doubt if God wanted the Inquisition. "But that's going rather far!" he said hastily and sat drumming the table and pursing his lips. Presently he brought out, "But you know I ...
— 1492 • Mary Johnston
... out into a thunder of approval, their feet drumming on the board seats sounding not ...
— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington
... lessons of a drumming master. He was in the grist-mill to day, and practised with two sticks on the half-bushel. I was astonished at the great number of strokes in a second, and if I had not seen that he had but two sticks, should have supposed that he ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop


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