单词 | kettledrum |
释义 | kettledrumn. 1. A musical instrument of percussion consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass or copper, over the edge of which parchment is stretched and tuned to a definite note: cf. drum n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > kettledrum nakerc1385 canayr1523 naquaire1523 kettle1604 kettledrum1604 atabal1672 timbal1680 tymbalon1817 1554 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 76 Thrumpets..and drumes mad of ketylles.] 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 12 The kettle drumme, and trumpet [1603 kettle, drumme, and trumpet; 1623 kettle Drum and Trumpet], thus bray out The triumph of his pledge. View more context for this quotation 1730 H. Fielding Tom Thumb ii. ii. 9 A Noise, Great as the Kettle Drums of twenty Armies. 1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 30 No Trumpet to sound, or Kettle-Drum to beat. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > drummer > of specific types of drum taburnistera1340 tabor1362 tabreta1377 tympanister1382 nakerera1400 taborerc1400 taborner14.. kettledrum1542 tympanist1611 kettledrummer1683 tom-tommer1871 trap-drummer1903 Lambegger1938 timpanist1939 pan-man1959 tamboo-bambooist1959 steel drummer1960 1542 T. Seymour Let. to Henry VIII 12 Oct. in State Papers (1849) IX. 201 The captaynes that your Heynes wolde retayne, the dromes and fyffes, the ketyl dromes. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxixv Trompettes..twelue in nombre besyde two kettle Drommes on horsebacke. 1669 London Gaz. No. 4012/3 6. Trumpets and 2. Kettle-Drums in rich Liveries. 1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy i. ii The rogue had a kettledrum to his father. a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) I. xv. 143 One Morgrigg, a Kettle Drum to the Queen's Life-guard. 3. colloquial. An afternoon tea party on a large scale.A punning term, implying that the gathering was a smaller affair than the usual ‘drum’ (see drum n.3 1) and associating it with the tea-kettle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > tea-party school feast1708 tea1738 tea-treatc1748 tea-visit1765 tea-party1778 tea-drinking1781 thé1788 tea junketing1820 tea-night1823 tea-shine1838 tea-fight1849 tea soirée1850 muffin-worry1859 kettledrum1861 muffin-fight1876 pink tea1883 bun-worry1889 train tea1895 tea-meeting1897 bun-struggle1899 American tea1915 silver tea1921 bunfight1928 1861 Times 1 July 12 Then the 5 o'clock tea, the sort of little assembly so happily called ‘kettledrum’. 1888 Lady 25 Oct. 374/1 We ask them to afternoon tea, or have kettle~drums at Le Repos. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2022). kettledrumv. intransitive. To beat the kettledrum; to make a noise like a kettledrum. ΚΠ 1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 175 He heard..his own heart kettle-drumming in his ears. Derivatives ˈkettleˌdrumming n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > regular or alternating rhythm > drumming randana1661 rub-a-duba1661 drumming1663 row dow dow1701 rub-a-dub-dub1714 tattoo1755 rattan1764 drum1810 rataplan1846 kettledrumming1848 tom-tom1863 tattooing1871 tumming1882 tum1911 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > beating drum > [noun] > types of drum kettledrumming1848 tambourinade1893 tassa1948 1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 277 There was a great deal too much trumpeting and kettle-drumming in the orchestra. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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