drumming

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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of the male ruffed grouse, the making of a loud reverberating noise by beating the wings, especially in the mating ritual.

Quotations

1853

. . . after listening a while, I knew it was . . . the drumming of the ruffed grouse.

1921

Back deep in the birch thicket partridges are drumming, and all the woodland is musical with the song of birds.