This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. A large copper or brass hemispherical drum with a parchment head that can be tuned by adjusting the tension.

n. A large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension.

n. A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

n. An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.

n. A musical instrument used in military bands and in orchestras, consisting of a hollow brass hemisphere from 24 to 30 inches in diameter, over which is stretched a head of parchment.

n. A fashionable afternoon entertainment given by a woman chiefly to women. It is less formal than an evening party, and the ladyguests generally wear bonnets. Also drum.

To drum (on the kettledrum); sound like a kettledrum.

n. a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it

"Kumran hearing of this was very angry, for the beating of a kettledrum is a sign of Empire."

percussion instrument    percussive instrument   

drum   

drum    kettle    timbal    naker    atabal    timpanum   

cithern    mauler    `amateurs'    planchette    he    instrumentalist    psaltery    war-drum    castanet    runlet