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drum-head court

drum-head court is the clipping of drumhead court-martial.

Meaning of drumhead court-martial

Noun

drumhead court-martial (plural drumhead court-martials)

  1. A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.
    • So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by...1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC

Forms of drum-head court

pluraldrum-head courts

Questions about drum-head court

What is drum-head court the clipping of?
Drum-head court is the clipping of drumhead court-martial.

Words near drum-head court in the dictionary

  1. drum tower
  2. drum towers
  3. drum up
  4. drum'n'bass
  5. drum-dried
  6. drum-head court
  7. drum-head courts
  8. drum-skin
  9. drum-skins
  10. Drumanure
  11. drumbeat

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