Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drumming"
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drumming
n : the act of playing drums; "he practiced his drumming several
hours every day" [syn: {percussion}]
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