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thunder-drums

thunder-drums is the plural of thunder-drum.

Meaning of thunder-drum

Noun

thunder-drum (plural thunder-drums)

  1. A large drum giving a deep booming sound when struck, used to imitate the sound of thunder.
    • Bull-voices and thunder-drums and the clashing of cymbals were used in this connection by the Greeks, and are mentioned by Aeschylus; but the bull-roarer, in the form of a rhombus of wood whirled at the end of a string, seems to be known, or to have been known, all over the world.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72

Questions about thunder-drums

What is thunder-drums the plural of?
Thunder-drums is the plural of thunder-drum.

Words near thunder-drums in the dictionary

  1. thunder words
  2. thunder-box
  3. thunder-boxes
  4. thunder-cloud
  5. thunder-drum
  6. thunder-drums
  7. thunder-gust
  8. thunder-gusts
  9. thunder-plant
  10. thunder-plump
  11. thunder-plumps

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