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Meanings of drumhead in English

Catalan
pedac de tambor
Spanish
parche de tambor

A membrane that is stretched taut over a drum.

        pedac de tambor
        Portuguese
        pele
        Spanish
        parches de tambor
        Catalan
        pedaç de tambor

        Membrane stretched over the ends of a drum.

              pele

              Performed speedily and without formality.

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                    Usage of drumhead in English
                    1
                    The possibility of being drumhead court-martialled and shot might not be remote.
                    The Coming Conquest of England
                    2
                    So they contended, and both were brought before the drumhead Court Martial.
                    A Girl of the Commune
                    3
                    The blood, drying in places, drew the skin as tight as a drumhead.
                    The Puppet Crown
                    4
                    The skin on their bellies was as tight as a drumhead.
                    Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
                    5
                    Fo bleating lamb was sacrificed to furnish parchment for its drumhead.
                    Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
                    6
                    Even a spy is entitled to a trial by drumhead court-martial!
                    The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
                    7
                    A drumhead court-martial is a hurried trial held in camp.
                    The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 25...
                    8
                    I hear they're going to have him out before a drumhead in the morning.
                    Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with...
                    9
                    Many militia officers were murdered, and many militiamen were executed by drumhead court martial.
                    The Iron Heel
                    10
                    Tom Paine wrote those words on a drumhead, by the light of a campfire.
                    The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt / Radio Addresse...
                    11
                    The tarp roof of their shelter flapped like a drumhead, thrumming from the wind.
                    Sons of the Oak
                    12
                    I will have no murder done-nodrumhead tyranny, fathered by the lees of fear!
                    Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders
                    13
                    Summary procedure made it easy to decide that the sentence of drumhead court-martial was death.
                    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, ...
                    14
                    The drumhead court-martial which followed was brief and formal.
                    The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
                    15
                    If they catch you it will be a drumhead and a firing squad at dawn!
                    The Last Shot
                    16
                    His face was suddenly as taut as a drumhead.
                    To the blight: the eye of the world
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                    Translations for drumhead
                    Portuguese
                    pele
                    Drumhead through the time