kettledrum 的定义
- a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere of brass, copper, or fiberglass over which is stretched a skin, the tension of which can be modified by hand screws or foot pedals to vary the pitch.
kettledrum 近义词
等同于 steel drum
更多kettledrum例句
- The carpenter sat beside him with a kettledrum, more literally a kettledrum even than the real thing, for that drum was a kettle!
- Dicky Wyatt writes, in answer to Helvellyn, that the word "Kettledrum" means a large social party.
- It was about a fine kettledrum all tasselled in royal fashion, with gold and silver, that Ibrahim's father had given him.
- The names given during the middle ages to the kettledrum are derived from the East.
- Said the slave-girl: “The large kettledrum sounds so sad to-day; some misfortune must surely have happened to the kettledrummer!”