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Definition of Drumlike
1. resembling the head of a drum [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumlike
Literary usage of Drumlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"When it landed, her hollow ribs gave forth a drumlike sound, and she was knocked
sprawling, her legs in the air. The other hounds at once Hed in horror, ..."
2. The Rockefeller Billions: The Story of the World's Most Stupendous Fortune by Jules Abels (1907)
"Percussion brought out a full resonant note which, on strong percussion, became
unnaturally loud and drumlike. ..."
3. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Leonard Pearson (1916)
"When the bones between the eyes, below the eyes, and above the back teeth of the
upper jaw are tapped on, a hollow, drumlike sound is emitted, ..."
4. The Eternal City by Hall Caine (1902)
"One man who was putting up his shutters shouted some answer that was lost in the
drumlike rumble of all voices in the falling snow. ..."
5. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, Vickers T. Atkinson, William Dickson, William Heyser Harbaugh, James Law, John Robbins Mohler, A. J. Murray, William Herbert Lowe, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, Milton R. Trumbower, Richard West Hickma (1916)
"... entire loss of appetite, lying down and rising as if in pain, fullness of the
abdomen, which gives out a drumlike sound when tapped with the fingers. ..."
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