DRUMMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drumming mean? 

• DRUMMING (noun)
  The noun DRUMMING has 1 sense:

1. the act of playing drums

  Familiarity information: DRUMMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUMMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of playing drums

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he practiced his drumming several hours every day

Hypernyms ("drumming" is a kind of...):

percussion (the act of playing a percussion instrument)

Derivation:

drum (play a percussion instrument)

 Context examples 

Martin's fists were tight-clenched, and his blood was drumming in his temples.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For a day at a time he would lie in the underbrush where he could watch the partridges drumming and strutting up and down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then suddenly came a low guggling, gargling sound, and a brisk drumming upon woodwork.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle sat grave and thoughtful, eating nothing and drumming his fingers upon the table, while my heart was heavy within me, and I could have sunk my face into my hands and burst into tears as I thought how powerless I was to aid my friend.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair after his whimsical protest, and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion, when our attention was arrested by a tremendous ring at the bell, followed immediately by a hollow drumming sound, as if someone were beating on the outer door with his fist.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)