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small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes" play a percussion instrument make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" |
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