(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.
Peddler
Definition:
(n.) One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(2) Anyone could imitate the twice-baked potatoes at the Peddler , or turn out a veal parmesan like the Villa Capri's, but there was no way a non-Chinese person could make moo shu pork , regardless of his or her training.
(3) Though a cultured man, who himself wrote poetry, Barnett Rosenberg took up work as a peddler, selling household goods such as shoelaces and buttons door to door in the West Country.
(4) "In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington."
(5) Ukip is a party of con artists, myth peddlers, charlatans and professional shysters.
(6) Doctor Sleep by Stephen King Since Stephen King published The Shining in 1977, his literary reputation has risen from peddler of schlock-horror to master of smalltown America's fears and dreams, both real and supernatural.
(7) The public is an easy mark for the "health peddler" who lacks credentials but possesses effective motivational skills and speaks with conviction about unfounded promises and exaggerated outcomes.
(8) Christian convert from Hinduism; peddler of Muslim “no-go zone” nonsense.
(9) Peddler calls are a common sound, too, as they sell vegetables and household products door-to-door.
(10) A survey conducted by discount vouchers peddlers VoucherCodesPro has revealed that one in five people admit to stealing items at supermarket self-service checkouts , adding up to £1.6bn worth of items every year, so frustrated are they with the ineptitude of their surrogate machine slaves.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The peddlers of fear are playing a dangerous game’.
(12) Chris Turner A buzzy run on the Edinburgh Fringe was followed by a US recording deal for this young pun-peddler, comedy rapper and erstwhile BBC New Comedy award finalist.
(13) National bath-bomb peddlers Lush (to jog your memory: those handmade soap shops that give off such a pungent whiff that their exterior is usually blighted by at least one hyperventilating shopper using the outside wall as physical support) is in the news today because it has heroically stood up to Amazon as part of a legal battle over the latter's use of the word "lush" to market rival lines of cosmetics.
(14) Major Abarca, who is among those alleged to be responsible for the crisis, was a former peddler of hats turned jeweller who owned a commercial mall (built in a estate donated by the Mexican army).
(15) Mitt Romney attempted to revive his flagging presidential campaign with a frontal assault on Newt Gingrich's ethics at the Republican debate in Tampa, accusing him "working as an influence peddler" and repeatedly reminding voters he was sacked as party leader in Congress for unethical behaviour.
(16) But when these sleaze-peddlers try to make money with disgusting lies about his relationship with his child, you bet he's going to sue."
(17) Those powerbrokers often value loyalty over quality in the selecting of parliamentary candidates, their backroom influence disenfranchises most party members who – not surprisingly – leave, and this structure opens the real risk of corruption, because influence peddlers thrive best when power is concentrated in the hands of a few.
(18) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
(19) But I don't believe that they anticipated coming off quite that badly against a man they dismiss as a peddler of "dangerous fantasies".
(20) Sale of modern medicines by untrained peddlers, general merchants, and other drug sellers is common throughout the developing world.