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An Irish measure of two feet in length.
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(historical) A worker who ties corn into sheaves.
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(music) To use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats and rhythms for music.
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(rare) Someone who plays bells; a musical bell ringer.
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(music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
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The playing of the bongo.
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(music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
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To ring out like a carillon.
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(military, historical) A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
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A Scottish highland country dance. A 4x40 bar reel for 4 couples in a 4-couple longwise set.
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(music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the drag, except that by convention diddles are played the same speed as the context in which they are placed.
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Alternative spelling of diddley bow [(music) A one-stringed instrument (monochord) that consists of a wire string attached to something solid like the side of a house, and played with a piece of metal or glass, originating in the African American traditional music of Mississippi in the United States.]
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(music) In drumming, a paradiddle where the first note is a drag.
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(Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
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A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
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Alternative spelling of drum roll [A sound produced by hitting a drum repeatedly and rhythmically over short intervals.]
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(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
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(drumming) Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
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(drumming) A paradiddle with a flam on the first note.
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One who plays a musical instrument by frailing.
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To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
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(music) A blast beat played as a roll of straight eighth notes with the kick and snare in unison.
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(intransitive) To dance the hornpipe.
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Alternative form of horsehead fiddle [Any of several Tuvan and Mongolian traditional stringed instruments, especially the igil or the morin khuur, characterized by the head of a horse being carved into its headstock.]
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Alternative form of Mississippi wind chime [(rare, offensive) A hanged black person.]
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A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
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A person who uses a paracord.
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(music) A percussive exercise (one of 26 drum rudiments) which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left’
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Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
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(music, archaic) Played by beating, like a gong or a drum.
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(historical) Formerly in the French army, the beat of a drum while culprits were being marched to punishment.
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(idiomatic) Voice for singing.
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One who plays on the tabor.
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(historical) A toy (spinning top) similar to a dreidel.
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(music) A cylindrical drum without snares, used as part of the modern drum kit.
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(music) A method of holding drum sticks in which the right hand uses an overhand grip and the left hand uses an underhand grip.
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(music) An electronic transducer allowing a drum, cymbal, etc. to control an electronic drum unit or similar device.
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(obsolete, intransitive) To drum.
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(US, slang, dated) One who plays a wind instrument, especially a bugler in the army.
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(music) A key to tune a stringed instrument.
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