drumless en · ADJ
Etymology
From drum + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a drum.
These boilers use small tubes and in many cases are drumless.
1948, Edgar MacNaughton, Elementary steam power engineering:Ray and his diminished Camino cluster, bass-less and drum-less, nonetheless put on a fine show.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 262: