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.