A large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it.
1 The whole capsule vibrated with it like a pea in a kettledrum .
2 The priest beat upon a kettledrum , and the echoes rolled through the temple.
3 I will play the lute, and you shall beat the kettledrum .
4 I can play the lute, and you can play the kettledrum .
5 At half-past eleven a kettledrum sounds a summons to the Jami or Cathedral.
6 Her walking dress was manifestly a dress inappropriate to a kettledrum .
7 That kettledrum at the lodge is one of the brightest spots in my memory.
8 So a kettledrum became the most fashionable of entertainments.
9 But his voice was as deep as a kettledrum and it vibrated in my bones.
10 He made a flailing backwards fall into a kettledrum .
11 You never do buy your round.' He threw a kettledrum stick, narrowly missing Lol's head.
12 A deep boom from a large kettledrum sounded.
13 The redcoats discharge their muskets with deep hissing booms, like handfuls of sand hurled against a kettledrum .
14 When the smoke cleared, there was nothing left but a burning chariot wheel and a half-melted kettledrum .
15 A kettledrum of a thump told him that life still breathed within the yards of white smock.
16 Kumran hearing of this was very angry, for the beating of a kettledrum is a sign of Empire.
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