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  • noun Plural form of drum.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of drum.

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Examples

  • The music [166] consisted, at first, of seventy men as a chorus, who sat down; and amidst them were placed three instruments, which we called drums, though very unlike them.

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time Robert Kerr 1784

  • Solomon Burke's website says he was born on March 21, 1940 "in an upper room at the United Praying Band The House of God for All People" Church in West Philadelphia "to the sounds of horns and bass drums from the sanctuary."

    Soul Singer Solomon Burke Dies at 70 2010

  • Solomon Burke's website says he was born on March 21, 1940 "in an upper room at the United Praying Band The House of God for All People" Church in West Philadelphia "to the sounds of horns and bass drums from the sanctuary."

    Soul Singer Solomon Burke Dies at 70 2010

  • She led me into a garage-like shed where the new crop is slowly heated to dry for storage and then spun in drums to sort the heads by size.

    Slow Food, High Gear 2008

  • She led me into a garage-like shed where the new crop is slowly heated to dry for storage and then spun in drums to sort the heads by size.

    Slow Food, High Gear 2008

  • Which made for a nice complement to another underwhelming, uninspired production from Graham Vick who once again drums up some gray walls to contain the action and wishes everyone the best of luck.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • She led me into a garage-like shed where the new crop is slowly heated to dry for storage and then spun in drums to sort the heads by size.

    Slow Food, High Gear 2008

  • Which made for a nice complement to another underwhelming, uninspired production from Graham Vick who once again drums up some gray walls to contain the action and wishes everyone the best of luck.

    Out on the moors 2008

  • And another plaintive dawn bugle reveille, executed off-key but with authoritarian certainty, all but muffled by the pounding marching drums from the cliff-side army barracks overlooking the beach.

    Hidden time revisited - Puerto Escondido 2004

  • And another plaintive dawn bugle reveille, executed off-key but with authoritarian certainty, all but muffled by the pounding marching drums from the cliff-side army barracks overlooking the beach.

    Hidden time revisited - Puerto Escondido 2004

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