Synonyms for drumming
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : druhm |
| Phonetic Transcription : drÊŒm |
Définition of drumming
Origin :- 1540s, probably from Middle Dutch tromme "drum," common Germanic (cf. German Trommel, Danish tromme, Swedish trumma), probably of imitative origin. Not common before 1570s. Slightly older, and more common at first, was drumslade, apparently from Dutch or Low German trommelslag. Machinery sense attested from 1740, from similarity of shape.
- verb beat, tap a beat
- The provincial captains are drumming up for soldiers, in every newspaper.
- Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- My companion paused, drumming on the leather covering of his chair.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Her whole attention was concentrated on 231 those rattling, drumming hoofs.
- Extract from : « Louisiana Lou » by William West Winter
- Captain Lote lapsed into silence, drumming the desk with his big fingers.
- Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- And all the time he was drumming with his fingers on the table and smiling.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- The Belfast drumming is a thing apart, like a Plymouth Brother.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- Drumming his own fingers on his own desk and glaring at his own desk sergeant, he purged his soul.
- Extract from : « Zero Data » by Charles Saphro
- All night they were disturbed by a lot of drumming in the villages.
- Extract from : « Tales of Unrest » by Joseph Conrad
- Some of the earth people say they are drumming for their mates.
- Extract from : « Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children » by Mabel Powers
- The drumming rain helped smother any sound she might have made.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson
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