drum (n.)
- barrage
- barrel
- beat
- beating
- bole
- cackle
- call
- canvass
- carol
- cask
- caw
- chatter
- cheep
- chirp
- chirrup
- chuck
- clack
- cluck
- cock-a-doodle-doo
- column
- conga
- coo
- count
- croak
- crow
- cuckoo
- cylinder
- din
- ding
- drizzle
- drumbeat
- drumfire
- drumhead
- drumming
- drumstick
- fall
- flutter
- gabble
- gaggle
- gobble
- hammer
- honk
- hoo
- hoot
- kettle
- kettledrum
- membranophone
- mizzle
- palpitation
- pant
- paradiddle
- patter
- peep
- pelt
- pillar
- pip
- pipe
- pitter-patter
- pound
- pounding
- pour
- precipitate
- pulsation
- pulse
- quack
- rain
- rat-a-tat
- rat-tat
- rataplan
- roll
- roller
- rouleau
- rub-a-dub
- ruff
- ruffle
- scold
- shower
- sing
- snare
- spatter
- spit
- splatter
- splutter
- sprinkle
- sputter
- squawk
- stream
- tabor
- taboret
- tam-tam
- tambourine
- tap
- tat-tat
- tattoo
- throb
- throbbing
- thrum
- thump
- thumping
- tick
- ticktock
- timbrel
- timpani
- tom-tom
- trill
- trunk
- tube
- tweet
- twit
- tympan
- tympanum
- warble
- weep
- whistle
drum (v.)
- barrage
- barrel
- beat
- cackle
- call
- canvass
- carol
- caw
- chatter
- cheep
- chirk
- chirp
- chirr
- chirrup
- chitter
- chuck
- clack
- cluck
- conga
- coo
- count
- croak
- cronk
- crow
- cuckoo
- din
- ding
- drizzle
- fall
- flutter
- gabble
- gaggle
- gobble
- guggle
- hammer
- honk
- hoo
- hoot
- mizzle
- palpitate
- pant
- patter
- peep
- pelt
- pip
- pipe
- pitter-patter
- pound
- pour
- precipitate
- pulsate
- pulse
- quack
- rain
- roll
- roller
- ruff
- ruffle
- scold
- shower
- sing
- snare
- spatter
- spit
- splatter
- splutter
- sprinkle
- sputter
- squawk
- stream
- tap
- tattoo
- throb
- thrum
- thump
- tick
- ticktock
- trill
- tube
- tweet
- twit
- warble
- weep
- whistle
drum (adj.)
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick,
Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,—a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
