Lexic.us

Definition of Drumming

1. Noun. The act of playing drums. "He practiced his drumming several hours every day"

Definition of Drumming

1. 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.

Definition of Drumming

1. Noun. The act of beating a drum. ¹

2. Verb. (present participle of drum) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Drumming

1. drum [v] - See also: drum

Medical Definition of Drumming

1. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumming

Literary usage of Drumming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"regarding a phenomenon so easily investigated in most parts of the world; and that a conspicuous specialized drumming muscle should have been either ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"Mr. Hancock's paper, in I lie 'Catalogue of the Birds of Northumberland and Durham,'was then reviewed, and its author's opinion that the ' drumming' was ..."

3. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1857)
"drumming. Early in the spring, the forests resound far and wide, in certain portions of our country, with the drumming of the cock pheasant, who adopts this ..."

4. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"... of wood are laid crosswise and played with sticks.3 Every large country in Africa has its own style of drumming ; Grant observed that the drumming of ..."

5. Primitive Music: An Inquiry Into the Origin and Development of Music, Songs by Richard Wallaschek (1893)
"... pieces of wood are laid crosswise and played with sticks.3 Every large country in Africa has its own style of drumming; Grant observed that the drumming ..."

6. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"The male has a curious habit of "drumming" in flight or while climbing the ... Besides the drumming of the male, which is not vocal, he has a series of ..."

7. Due Process of Law and the Equal Protection of the Laws: A Treatise Based by Hannis Taylor (1917)
"Prohibiting drumming on carriers' premises. The Arkansas act could single out hotels, lodging houses, eating houses, bath houses, physicians, masseurs, ..."

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