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kettledrum

noun as in steel drum

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The carpenter sat beside him with a kettledrum, more literally a kettledrum even than the real thing, for that drum was a kettle!

Dicky Wyatt writes, in answer to Helvellyn, that the word "Kettledrum" means a large social party.

It was about a fine kettledrum all tasselled in royal fashion, with gold and silver, that Ibrahim's father had given him.

The names given during the middle ages to the kettledrum are derived from the East.

Said the slave-girl: “The large kettledrum sounds so sad to-day; some misfortune must surely have happened to the kettledrummer!”

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to kettledrum, such as: pan, steel pan, and timpani.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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