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View synonyms for steel drum
steel drum
noun
- Music. a bowl-shaped percussion instrument common in the West Indies, made from a steel barrel divided into sections producing different notes when struck.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of steel drum1
First recorded in 1950–55
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Example Sentences
On it, you wrote down whatever you hoped for the coming year, then cast it into a big steel drum in the center of the yard.
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At half-past twelve at night a prolonged tattoo on the little steel drum!
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Twenty feet before him stood the steel drum round which the endless cable worked.
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In the tube, the weapon sounded like a firecracker going off in a steel drum.
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There was only a fifty-gallon steel drum used as a spare fuel supply.
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The dogged plodder at the desk endured other heartburnings of which the little steel drum beat the signal.
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