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单词 kettledrum
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kettledrumn.

Brit. /ˈkɛtldrʌm/, U.S. /ˈkɛd(ə)lˌdrəm/
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.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > kettledrum
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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.
attributive.1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. vi. 68 His head being dandled up and down on the bed of the waggon like a kettledrum-stick.1898 Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 4/3 The kettledrum boy plays his incessant pom-pom-pom.
2. = kettledrummer n. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈkɛtldrʌm/, U.S. /ˈkɛd(ə)lˌdrəm/
Etymology: < kettledrum n.
intransitive. To beat the kettledrum; to make a noise like a kettledrum.
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1893 S. R. Crockett Stickit Minister 175 He heard..his own heart kettle-drumming in his ears.

Derivatives

ˈkettleˌdrumming n.
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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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