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drumhead

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drumhead
1. Music the part of a drum that is actually struck with a stick or the hand
2. the head of a capstan, pierced with holes for the capstan bars
3. another name for eardrum


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The skin roof, stretched tightly as a drumhead, I had thought, sagged and bellied with every gust; and innumerable interstices in the walls, not so tightly stuffed with moss as Maud had supposed, disclosed themselves.
If you refused to go into the militia, or to obey after you were in, you would be tried by drumhead court martial and shot down like dogs.
It looks very tough and I can use it to make myself a drumhead.
 
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