Drummer

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  • noun. One who plays a drum, as in a band.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who plays the drum; especially, one who beats time on the drum for military exercises and marching.
  • noun. One who solicits custom; a traveling salesman; a commercial traveler.
  • noun. A local name of a large West Indian cockroach, Blatta gigantea, which, in old frame houses, makes a noise at night, by knocking its head against the wood. The sound very much resembles a smart knocking with the knuckle upon the wainscoting.
  • noun. A horse that beats the air by throwing its fore legs out irregularly as it goes.
  • noun. Same as drum, 11.
  • noun. A local English name for a rabbit: so called on account of its habit of beating or drumming upon the earth with the hind feet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
  • noun. One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
  • noun. A fish that makes a sound when caught.
  • noun. The squeteague.
  • noun. A California sculpin.
  • noun. A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who plays the drums.
  • noun. travelling salesman
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  • noun. someone who plays a drum