(n.) One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
(n.) One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
(n.) A fish that makes a sound when caught
(n.) The squeteague.
(n.) A California sculpin.
(n.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.
Example Sentences:
(1) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(2) Tour begins 22 November, NIA, Birmingham, thenia.co.uk Black Sabbath Still without original drummer Bill Ward, but with their first US No 1 album (the Rick Rubin-produced 13), the undisputed godfathers of metal play a handful of UK shows.
(3) The band have been through a few drummers - Matt Letley is still feeling his way after only seven years.
(4) That prompted a drummer in his studio band to storm off the stage in mock outrage while bandleader Kevin Eubanks quipped: "Jay, you're messing around on me?"
(5) Baio and drummer Chris Tomson seem like good-natured, expressive guys, easy-going and straightforward.
(6) In 1936 Lee was briefly drummer with trumpeter Buck Clayton's Fourteen Gentlemen of Harlem and later toured with singer Ethel Waters's orchestra.
(7) Sometimes he performed with a Nazi swastika hanging behind the drummer.
(8) Around the same time, Dupuis's soon-to-be bandmates – drummer Mike Falcone, recently departed guitarist Matt Robidoux and bassist Darl Ferm – were all similarly "in between projects".
(9) She talks passionately about dancing in Haiti: "When Win and I were staying in this place that had windows but no real doors and some drummers started playing, and more drummers came and more drummers came, and they were playing these roots, voodoo rhythms, and we just danced til 5am, and when we were too hot, we just ran and jumped in the ocean."
(10) Drummer Chris Sharrock has described 2013 as their “annus horribilis” .
(11) Tom Spicer and his sister Kate in the film Mission to Lars Photograph: Misison to Lars And on the big screen, documentary Mission to Lars followed a man with a learning disability as he left his Devon care home on a quest to meet his hero, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
(12) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
(13) Richard Hughes, the group's drummer, wrote on Twitter that the Tories had not asked the band's permission to use their 2004 hit Everybody's Changing .
(14) Reports of the grisly death of Drummer Lee Rigby on the streets of London first reached David Cameron as he travelled with François Hollande from an EU summit in Brussels to Paris.
(15) I also spent time with their onetime drummer John Coghlan, who these days puts in occasional appearances with a tribute band called "State of Quo", and had a long conversation with their ex-bassist Alan Lancaster, who was forced out of the group in the wake of their show-opening appearance at Live Aid.
(16) The four members of Haim – Danielle Haim, Este Haim, Alana Haim , long-haired sisters from Los Angeles who play pointy, 80s-indebted pop-rock with a drummer, Dash Hutton – gathered around a desktop computer, killing time before the final show of their European tour.
(17) Ek also sprang a surprise at the event, inviting Napster co-founder and Spotify board member Sean Parker and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on to the stage together, despite the band famously suing Napster in 2000.
(18) Augmented by drummer Baby Jeff White, the sound is as loud as a landing 747 - each cymbal-crash a clean shot to the head.
(19) He has also covered an old Scottish folk song, 'Hymn Of The Whale', as well as a fearsome semi-industrial track in the company of the erstwhile drummer from Nine Inch Nails.
(20) I always wanted to listen to them and watch them on telly – I was a drummer so I wanted to be their drummer.
Hawker
Definition:
(n.) One who sells wares by crying them in the street; hence, a peddler or a packman.
(v. i.) To sell goods by outcry in the street.
(n.) A falconer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hawkers say Christmas time, when westerners flock to offload clothes to charity shops, brings in the biggest bales.
(2) Rudd's replacement, according to the veteran Labor campaign strategist Bruce Hawker, saw Labor's vote collapse: "Now, if an election was held tomorrow, Labor would lose 30 seats," he said.
(3) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
(4) Hawker, like Crosby, also has a range of commercial and public sector clients.
(5) One small shareholder, who introduced himself as Captain Hawker, said BP had stepped into a “PR nightmare” by handing out such largesse when the rest of the country was mired in austerity.
(6) Hawker and Crosby have been longstanding rivals in Australia and according to one insider "are able to guess what the other guy is going to think before he thinks it".
(7) Compared with control subjects in identical classes, the hawkers were on the average 2 years older in age, were of poorer physique, and had lower hemoglobin values.
(8) No Tesco executives will ever board the jet, as he has put it up for sale – along with the rest of the Tesco fleet, which includes a Hawker 800 and two Cessna Citations.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Further footage has emerged showing the Hawker Hunter jet crashing onto the A27 in Shoreham, West Sussex after it failed to pull out of a loop manoeuvre However, Learmount said that safety at airshows was vigorously controlled and fatalities involving people other than pilots are extremely rare.
(10) People will still travel halfway across the country on their own dime to hear him speak, and hawkers still sell T-shirts at his events.
(11) Perplexed at the sight of hawkers on a highway, I strain to see what they are trying to sell me.
(12) I think it's up to the Labor party to get behind the leader," Bruce Hawker, longtime Labor strategist and the man who ran Rudd's challenge against Gillard last year, told ABC TV.
(13) Speaking on Sky News, Bruce Hawker – the man who orchestrated Kevin Rudd’s last leadership challenge – urged Rudd to stand in the ballot.
(14) Memories of the Conchords’ nearby flat at 41 Hawker Street provided the inspiration.
(15) Chantelle Kanimo, an 18-year-old hawker, said young Kenyans would not fight again.
(16) While footage of the Shoreham crash suggests casualties may have included people watching unofficially from the roadside, the Hawker crashed well away from the show’s crowd.
(17) (Hopefully Bishop can avoid the boilover that happened the last time she sought the job, in 2004 .. when she lost out to the Victorian MP, David Hawker.
(18) In a blogpost , Hawker wrote: "Cameron now lacks authenticity – his early centrist rhetoric bears no resemblance to the austerity drive he has mounted.
(19) Undeterred by the small army of security, several hundred cheery visitors had massed at the cathedral barriers by 6am, some wearing brightly colored shirts labeled by their parish, others lining up to buy Vatican flags from hawkers, and a few giving change to the homeless people who wandered near the edges.
(20) Such is the snail's pace of morning traffic that hawkers patrol the queues selling socks and phone chargers, McVitie's digestives and shaving kits.