drumming : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drumming	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for drumming
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drumming n the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several hours every day"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drumming}.] 1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a drum. 2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings. Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair. --W. Irving. 3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden. 4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drumming \Drum"ming\, 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.