bepat
drum
ruff
roll
tattooing
tattoo
ruffle
drumming
drummingly
beat out
drumbeat
beat
rataplan
rub-a-dub
tuck
belabour
dub
tympany
drumlike
isukuti
rudiment
tambour
drumbeater
percussion
drum roll
drummer
goatskin
oontz
drummy
unmuffle
drumful
strike
percussional
blast beat
rhythmize
paradiddle
rubadub
hand drum
press roll
friction drum
thumpy
snare
bongo
pulsate
air-drumming
redrum
percussion break
percussive
thrum
tympanic
dragadiddle
cradle
gin
sticksmanship
belabor
to the tune of
spat
melodicism
candombe
thump out
doosh
bongo drum
talking drummer
rhythmicize
tabor
tap out
frame drum
touch
lithophone
geophone
percussionally
devil's tattoo
march to a different beat
lace
bethump
bludgeon
tam-tam
kurbash
gong
drumlike
drummy
percussional
thumpy
percussive
tympanic
drummingly
percussionally
tattooing
drumming
drumbeat
rataplan
rub-a-dub
tuck
tympany
isukuti
rudiment
tambour
drum
drumbeater
percussion
drum roll
drummer
goatskin
ruffle
ruff
drumful
blast beat
paradiddle
rubadub
hand drum
press roll
friction drum
snare
air-drumming
percussion break
dragadiddle
gin
sticksmanship
melodicism
bongo
candombe
bongo drum
talking drummer
tabor
frame drum
lithophone
geophone
devil's tattoo
tam-tam
gong
bepat
drum
ruff
roll
tattoo
ruffle
beat out
beat
belabour
dub
rataplan
unmuffle
strike
rhythmize
bongo
pulsate
redrum
thrum
cradle
belabor
spat
thump out
rhythmicize
tap out
touch
march to a different beat
lace
bethump
bludgeon
kurbash
verb
- To beat a drum.
- To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
noun
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- A tip; a piece of information.
- A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- Synonym of construction barrel
- The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
verb
- To beat a ruff or ruffle, as on a drum.
- Of a drum, etc.: to have a ruff or ruffle beaten on it.
- To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff.
- Especially in the form ruff out: to defeat (a card, etc.) by ruffing, thus establishing the master card in the suit led.
- To ruffle; to disorder.
- Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it.
- To play a trump card to a trick when unable to follow suit (that is, when unable to play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card).
noun
- A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruffle.
- A circular frill or ruffle on a garment, especially a starched, fluted frill at the neck in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (1560s–1620s).
- Arripis georgianus, a fish found in cool waters off the southern coast of Australia; the Australian herring or tommy ruff.
- An instance of ruffing, or an opportunity to ruff, when unable to follow suit.
- Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).
- A collar on a shaft or other piece to prevent endwise motion.
- Anything formed with plaits or flutings like a frill.
- A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers on or around the neck of a bird.
- A collar of lengthened or distinctively coloured fur on or around the neck of an animal.
intj
verb
- To beat with rapid, continuous strokes, as a drum; to sound a roll upon.
- To travel by sailing.
- To cause to betray secrets or to testify for the prosecution.
- To enrobe in toilet-paper (as a prank or spectacle).
- To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution.
- To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface.
- To leave or begin a journey.
- To engage in sparring in the context of jujitsu or other grappling disciplines.
- To load ocean freight cargo onto a vessel other than the one it was meant to sail on.
- To move, like waves or billows, with alternate swell and depression.
- To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.
- To make a loud or heavy rumbling noise.
- To slip past (a defender) with the ball.
- To wrap (something) round on itself; to form into a spherical or cylindrical body by causing to turn over and over.
- To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault.
- To be wound or formed into a cylinder or ball.
- to move and cause an effect on someone
- To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.
- To throw dice.
- To generate a random number.
- To have a rolling aspect.
- To create a customized version of.
- To (cause to) film.
- To utter with an alveolar trill.
- To beat up; to assault.
- To be under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy).
- To bind or involve by winding, as in a bandage; to enwrap; often with up.
- To compete, especially with vigor.
- To behave in a certain way; to adopt a general disposition toward a situation.
- To turn over in one's mind; to revolve.
- To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.
- To turn over and over.
- To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in such a manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal.
- To drive or impel forward with an easy motion, as of rolling.
- To spread itself under a roller or rolling-pin.
- To utter copiously, especially with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; — often with forth, or out.
- To press or level with a roller; to spread or form with a roll, roller, or rollers.
- To move, or cause to be moved, upon, or by means of, rollers or small wheels.
- To betray secrets.
noun
- A winning streak of continuing luck, especially at gambling (and especially in the phrase on a roll).
- A heavy, reverberatory sound.
- A swagger or rolling gait.
- A quantity of cloth wound into a cylindrical form.
- A catalogue or list, (especially) one kept for official purposes.
- The act of, or total resulting from, rolling one or more dice.
- A document written on a piece of parchment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll.
- A training match for a fighting dog.
- One of a set of revolving cylinders, or rollers, between which metal is pressed, formed, or smoothed, as in a rolling mill.
- A cylindrical twist of tobacco.
- A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself; see also bread roll.
- The rotation angle about the longitudinal axis.
- Any of various financial instruments or transactions that involve opposite positions at different expiries, "rolling" a position from one expiry to another.
- A forward or backward roll in gymnastics; going head over heels. A tumble.
- The uniform beating of a drum with strokes so rapid as scarcely to be distinguished by the ear.
- The measure or extent to which a vessel rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis.
- That which is rolled up.
- A measure of parchments, containing five dozen.
- An instance of the act of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The skill of righting a canoe or kayak which has capsized, without exiting the watercraft, or being assisted.
- The act or result of rolling, or state of being rolled.
- The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.
- An official or public document; a register; a record.
- An instance of the act of rolling an aircraft through one or more complete rotations about its longitudinal axis.
- A heavy cylinder used to break clods.
verb
- To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
- To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
- To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
noun
- A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
- A military display or pageant.
- A pony of a certain breed from India.
- An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
- A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
- A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
verb
- To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
noun
verb
- To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- To indicate by beating or drumming.
- To make a sound when struck.
- simple past tense of beat
- To rob.
- To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- To hit; to strike.
- To tread, as a path.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- To have sexual intercourse.
- To arrive at a place before someone.
- To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
noun
- A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- A beatnik.
- A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- A rhythm.
- The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- A pulsation or throb.
- A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- A stroke; a blow.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- A precinct.
adj
noun
- The beat of a drum.
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
verb
- To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
- (now historical) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword.
- To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
- To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation
- To make a copy from an original or master audio tape.
- To dress a fishing fly.
- To dress with an adze.
- To prepare (a gamecock) for fighting, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
- To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of currying it.
- To mix audio tracks to produce a new sound; to remix.
- To deem.
- To execute a shot poorly.
- To do something badly.
- To name, to entitle, to call.
- To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn.
- To add sound to film or change audio on film.
noun
- A twenty-dollar sack of marijuana.
- A blow, thrust, or poke.
- A trend in music starting in 2009, in which bass distortion is synced off timing to electronic dance music.
- A win.
- The replacement of a voice part in a movie or cartoon, particularly with a translation; an instance of dubbing.
- A style of reggae music involving mixing of different audio tracks.
- An unskillful, awkward person.
- A mostly instrumental remix with all or part of the vocals removed.
- A pool or puddle.
- A wheel rim measuring 20 inches or more.
- A piece of graffiti in metallic colour with a thick black outline.
verb
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To score a goal.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
noun
- A snare drum.
- A trap (especially one made from a loop of wire, string, or leather).
- A set of stiff wires held under tension against the lower skin of a drum to create a rattling sound.
- A similar looped instrument formerly used to remove tumours etc.
- A mental or psychological trap.
- A loop of cord used in obstetric cases, to hold or to pull a fetus from the mother animal.
verb
verb
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
noun
- Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- A fringe made of such threads.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- A spicy taste; a tang.
- A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
- A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
adj
verb
- To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
- To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
- To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- To rock (a baby to sleep).
- To contain in or as if in a cradle.
- To nurse or train in infancy.
- To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
- To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
- To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
noun
- A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
- Infancy, or very early life.
- A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
- A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
- A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
- A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
- The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
- A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
- A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
- A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
- A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
noun
- A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
- A snare or trap for game.
- A windpump.
- An Aboriginal woman.
- A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
- An instrument of torture worked with screws.
- Gin rummy.
- A cotton gin.
- Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
- A pile driver.
- A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
verb
conj
verb
- To strike with a spattering sound.
- To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
- To quarrel or argue briefly.
noun
- A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
- A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
- A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
- A light blow with something flat.
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To perform, as a tune; to play.
- To make intimate physical contact with a person.
- To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
- To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
- To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
- To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
- To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
- To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
- To concern, to have to do with.
- To make physical contact with a thing.
- To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
- To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
- To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
- To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
- To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
- To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
- To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
- To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
- To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
- Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
- To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
- To consume, or otherwise use.
- To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
- To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
- To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
- To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
- To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
- To come close to; to approach.
noun
- The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
- The children's game of tag.
- A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
- An act of borrowing or stealing something.
- The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
- The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
- A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
- A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
- The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
- The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
- A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
- An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
- The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
- A little bit; a small amount.
- A relationship of close communication or understanding.
- Form; standard of performance.
verb
- To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
- To interweave items.
- To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
- To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
- To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
- To fasten (something) with laces.
noun
verb
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