drumming

4 definitions found

drumming - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drummed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Drumming.]
     1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a
        drum.
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     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.
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              Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.
                                                    --W. Irving.
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     3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden.
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     4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to
        draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
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  Drumming \Drum"ming\, 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.
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drumming - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  drumming
      n 1: the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming
           several hours every day"

drumming - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "drumming":
     arrhythmia, bang, barrage, bash, bat, beat, beating, belt, biff,
     blinding, blow, bonk, cat-and-doggish, chop, clicking, clip, clout,
     clump, crack, cut, dash, dig, dint, drippy, driving, drizzling,
     drizzly, drub, drubbing, drum, drum music, drumbeat, drumfire,
     flutter, fluttering, fusillade, heartbeat, heartthrob, hit, jab,
     knock, lick, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, palpitant, palpitation,
     paradiddle, patter, pelt, pelting, pitapat, pitter-patter, plunk,
     pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, poke, pound, pounding, pouring,
     pulsation, pulse, punch, rainy, rap, rat-a-tat, rat-tat,
     rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, rhythm, roll, rub-a-dub, ruff,
     ruffle, showery, slam, slog, slug, smack, smash, sock, spatter,
     spattering, splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato,
     streaming, stroke, swat, swing, swipe, tat-tat, tattoo, tempo,
     throb, throbbing, thrum, thrumming, thump, thumping, thwack,
     ticking, tom-tom, whack, whop, yerk