Drumstick

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  • noun. A stick for beating a drum.
  • noun. The lower part of the leg of a fowl, especially when cooked.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The tetanus bacillus, which has a round spore at one extremity.
  • noun. One of the sticks used in beating a drum.
  • noun. Hence, from its shape, the lower or outer joint of the leg of a dressed fowl, as a chicken, duck, or turkey.
  • noun. The stilt-sandpiper or bastard dowitcher, Micropalama himantopus.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A stick with which a drum is beaten.
  • noun. Anything resembling a drumstick in form; -- applied especially to the tibiotarsus, or second joint, of the leg of a fowl, when cooked and served at the table.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A stick used to play drums.
  • noun. The second joint of the leg bone of a chicken or other fowl, as meat.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a stick used for playing a drum
  • noun. the lower joint of the leg of a fowl
  • Word Usage
    ""Trust Jack for that," added Peterkin, who was at that moment deeply engaged with what he called the drumstick of a roast monkey."
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