Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a drum, such as in sound or shape

Etymologies

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drum +‎ -like

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Examples

  • You can use long, slow strokes or rapid, drumlike pressure with the fingers and hands.

    30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

  • You can use long, slow strokes or rapid, drumlike pressure with the fingers and hands.

    30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

  • Standing with my nose barely a few inches from those massive doors, I listened to the drumlike pounding of my heart in my ears.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • Standing with my nose barely a few inches from those massive doors, I listened to the drumlike pounding of my heart in my ears.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • Standing with my nose barely a few inches from those massive doors, I listened to the drumlike pounding of my heart in my ears.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • You can use long, slow strokes or rapid, drumlike pressure with the fingers and hands.

    30 Days to a Well-Mannered Dog Tamar Geller 2010

  • When I turned he said, “Not the speed bag,” and pointed toward one of those big drumlike things.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • Parfitt started wondering about another aspect of the Lemba's now-credible oral history: a drumlike object called the ngoma lungundu.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • When I turned he said, “Not the speed bag,” and pointed toward one of those big drumlike things.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

  • When I turned he said, “Not the speed bag,” and pointed toward one of those big drumlike things.

    Becoming Holyfield Evander Holyfield with Lee Gruenfeld 2008

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