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1.nounA percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it; a membranophone.
2.nounAny similar hollow, cylindrical object."Replace the drum unit of your printer."
3.nounA barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage."The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums."
4.nounThe encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
5.nounAny of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
6.nounA drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
7.nounA tip; a piece of information.
8.nounA small hill or ridge of hills.
9.nounA social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
10.nounA person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
11.nounA small shallow drum.
12.nounA circular frame for embroidery.
13.nounA rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
14.nounSilk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
15.nounThe capital of a Corinthian column.
16.nounA work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
17.nounA shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
18.nounIn real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
19.verbTo embroider on a tambour (circular frame).