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To drum.

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  1. v. i. To drum.
  2. v. t. To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.
  3. To drum. [R.] Coles. To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum. [Obs.] "Tympanized, as other saints of God were." Oley.
  4. To drum. [R.] Coles.