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drum head en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell for the purpose of striking, sometimes made of skin but often synthetic.
   • Deer as mythological flying creatures appear to have played a vital role in the religious life of Zhang Zhung. It is written in Tibetan texts that its body parts were sought after in the manufacture of ritual objects such a[s] drumheads and tabernacles. 2014, John Vincent Bellezza, chapter 2, in The Dawn of Tibet: The Ancient Civilization on the Roof of the World, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, page 43:
   • […] out bounced the pudden itself, hoppin', as nimble as a pea on a drum-head, about the floor. 1845, William Carleton, “The Pudding Bewitched”, in Tales and Sketches: Illustrating the Character, Usages, Traditions, Sports and Pastimes of the Irish Peasantry, Dublin: James Duffy, page 227:
   • […] I noticed with surprise, that when I struck the ice with the head of my axe, it resounded like a gong for many rods around, or as if I had struck on a tight drumhead. 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter XVII, in Walden, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, published 1910, page 398:
2. A drumhead cabbage.
   • The Savoy is best for boiling; drum-head and purple for Cole-Slaw. 1896, Fanny Merritt Farmer, chapter XIX, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., published 1918:

Forms

Deriveds

drumhead tribunal · drumhead court-martial · drumhead clock · drumhead cabbage

Synonyms

drumskin · skin

Translations (6)

fi rumpukalvo (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell) · sv trumskinn (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell) · nl trommelvel (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell) · da trommeskind (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell) · es parche (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell) · kl isi (thin circle of material attached to the top of a drum shell)