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side drum

side drum

noun

  1. a small double-headed drum carried at the side with snares that produce a rattling effect
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of side drum1

First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences

Then the bottom was removed from the big butter box, the side drum severed, and one end securely fastened under the front end of the toboggan bottom.

The two halves are kept open by a slight spring fixed to a frame attached to the hoop of a side drum, and the instrument is worked by the drummer with an ordinary drum-stick.

The side drum was, until the reign of Elizabeth, of a much larger size than now and was held horizontally and beaten on one head only.

With Drummer Price, an expert of many years' service with the side drum, and L/Cpl.

The old cylindrical ear-piercing fife is an obsolete instrument, being superseded by a small army flute, still, however, called a fife, used with the side drum in the drum and fife band.

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