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A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [Obs.] J. Philips.

One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

One who plays on a kettledrum.

To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.

The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

ng the breeding season. Called also tippet grouse, partridge, birch partridge, pheasant, drummer, and white-flesher. -- ruffed lemur (Zoöl.), a species of lemur (lemur varius) having a conspicuous ruff on the sides of the head. Its color is varied with black and white. Called also ruffed maucaco.