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noun

Drummer n.

One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. (Colloq. U.S.)

(Zool.) A fish that makes a sound when caught; as:

(a)

The squeteague.

(b)

A California sculpin.

(Zool.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

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Etymology of 'Drummer'

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"Drummer" Quotes from Famous Books

... and if she had anything terrible to tell I was glad of that, for when she whispered I heard her best. For a time only a murmur of words reached me, distant music with an "ou" now and again that fired Tibbie as the beating of his drum may rouse the martial spirit of a drummer. At last our visitor broke into an agitated whisper, and it was only when she stopped whispering, as she did now and again, that I ceased to hear her. Jess evidently put a question at times, but so politely (for she had on ...

— A Window in Thrums • J. M. Barrie

... disputed with as possible, dressed immediately, that I might make no one wait. The first preparation for our setting out was, that the captain's half-pike was placed near the coachman, and a drum behind the coach. In the mean time the drummer, the captain's equipage, was very loud, that none of the captain's things should be placed so as to be spoiled; upon which his cloak-bag was fixed in the seat of the coach; and the captain himself, according to a frequent, though invidious behaviour of military ...

— The Coverley Papers • Various

... poltroons! If you only knew how they behaved to me! By Jove, sir, they hooted me going to the House of Lords, and nearly pulled me off my horse. The ruffians would have massacred me if they could; and then they all ran away from a drummer-boy and a couple of grenadiers, who were going the rounds to change guard. Was not that good? Fine, eh? A brutish mob in a fit of morality about to immolate a gentleman, and then scampering off from a sentry. I ...

— Venetia • Benjamin Disraeli

... grenadiers were lunging, And like hail fell the plunging Cannon-shot; When the files Of the isles From the smoky night encampment bore the banner of the rampant Unicorn, And grummer, grummer, grummer, rolled the roll of the drummer, Through ...

— Hero Tales From American History • Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt

... he threw himself from the saddle and closed his gauntleted hand with force on the arm of a drummer boy. ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

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