drum ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of the male ruffed grouse, produce a loud reverberating noise by beating the wings.

Quotations

1873

Butterflies fluttered in the clear, pure air; partridges drummed in the budding thickets.

1957

Grouse drummed and hooted here, woodpeckers hammered, squirrels chattered, insects murmured in the nuptial flight of evening.

1967

. . . the sound of drumming grouse or bugling elk. . . .