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Drumstick   /drˈəmstɪk/   Listen
Drumstick

noun
1.
The lower joint of the leg of a fowl.
2.
A stick used for playing a drum.



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"Drumstick" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the episode rankled in the blunderers after they had elected their pride President. He must have felt like the gentleman at the inn dining-room who, falling asleep at his meal, had the fowl consumed by some merry wags; then greasing his lips with the drumstick, they left him before the carcass so that the host naturally charged him ...
— The Lincoln Story Book • Henry L. Williams
... more like a subterranean cave than anything else; they were dancing English dances, and the music here was a degree better, as a drum was played by one of the violinists! [This might be effected by the violin player having the drumstick tied to his right foot, ...
— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden
... bird-like voice, unaccompanied by any music. For three hours the child sang, acted, and danced in the suffocating stable, lighted by two petroleum lamps. The next day I saw Mignon sitting on one of the shafts of the caravan and gnawing the 'drumstick' of a fowl. The child-actress was the prop of her mother and the donkey; her talent also kept the youth, who began to agitate the nerves of Beynac with his diabolical rataplan ...
— Two Summers in Guyenne • Edward Harrison Barker
... Sampson. Let me help you to a scrap of cold chicken. What? Drumstick! Miss Faithie—here is a woman who makes it a principle to go through the world, choosing drumsticks! She's a study; and I set you to ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... snare-drum; base-drum; kettle-drum; tabor, taborine. Associated Words: reveille, rappel, chamade, ruff, tattoo, ruffle, roll, rataplan, drummer, drumhead, drumstick. ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


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