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noun

Drummer n.

One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. (Colloq. U.S.)

(Zool.) A fish that makes a sound when caught; as:

(a)

The squeteague.

(b)

A California sculpin.

(Zool.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

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Etymology of 'Drummer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drummer" Quotes from Famous Books

... of finding his prospects, I had some of his friends interviewed, and managed to learn that the friend on whom Maroney principally relied to furnish bail, was one whom he had met in the South when he was a drummer, but who had now become ...

— The Expressman and the Detective • Allan Pinkerton

... a bumping-match between a fat warrior and a dwarf. Standing erect, his paunch like a bass-drum before a drummer, the fat man was run at, head-a-tilt by the dwarf, and sent spinning ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... came a drummer for a grocery house, and began telling how much his sales had been in that town: To one grocer a car-load each of rice, nutmegs, cinnamon and pepper, besides several hundred barrels of flour and as many chests of tea. I told him I didn't doubt his ...

— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston

... and render the outcome of the trial significant. The only case of its sort in its time, it was nevertheless most typical of the superstition of the time. A little town in Wiltshire had been disturbed by a stray drummer. The self-constituted noise-maker was called to account by a stranger in the village, a Mr. Mompesson of Tedworth, who on examining the man's license saw that it had been forged and took it away from ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... darkness Bobby looked in on the score or more of men doubtfully, ready for instant disappearance on the slightest alarm. Desperate was the emergency, forlorn the hope that had brought him there. At every turn his efforts to escape from the Castle had been baffled. He had been imprisoned by drummer boys and young recruits in the gymnasium, detained in the hospital, captured in ...

— Greyfriars Bobby • Eleanor Atkinson

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