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Drumming

noun

The act of playing drums.

Drum

verb

(past & past part. drummed; pres. part. drumming)

Make a rhythmic sound. Synonyms: beat, thrum. "The drums beat all night"

Play a percussion instrument.

Study intensively, as before an exam. Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.

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"Drumming" Quotes from Famous Books

... along the corridor and entered the hall. Dr. Winthrop was seated at the piano, drumming idly ...

— The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and - Selected Essays • Charles Waddell Chesnutt

... his boxes, whistling to himself and drumming his heels on the platform. The train came up at last, and in he jumped, finding himself and a grave elderly gentleman in ...

— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed

... degrees into the half-graded highway, until the turnpike and toll-bar, with its despotic keeper, exacted its tribute from progress. This was the prelude to a still more amazing transformation, for the day soon came, though not in our hero's time, when the drumming of the partridge was silenced by the choo-choo of the locomotive as it shrieked through forest and beaver-meadow on its way to vaster tracks, further and further west, disclosing and leaving in its trail an empire of undreamed-of fertility. ...

— The Story of Isaac Brock - Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 • Walter R. Nursey

... be courteous was offset by an impatient drumming of his fingers on the desk and the drawing together ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... him, head down, only a few feet distant, old Aries, the ram, spurned the turf with drumming hoofs. ...

— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

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