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skull drums

skull drums is the plural of skull drum.

Meaning of skull drum

Noun

skull drum (plural skull drums)

  1. A drum (musical instrument) made from a thin covering stretched over a hemispherical section of a human skull; also, a damaru made from two skulls.
    • These sorcerers summoned the spirits with whom they worked, by blowing on horns made from human thigh bones and beating on skull drums and gongs.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 31

Questions about skull drums

What is skull drums the plural of?
Skull drums is the plural of skull drum.

Words near skull drums in the dictionary

  1. skull base disease
  2. skull base diseases
  3. skull cap
  4. skull caps
  5. skull drum
  6. skull drums
  7. skull fuck
  8. skull fucking
  9. skull session
  10. skull sessions
  11. skull splitter

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