(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.
Sting
Definition:
(v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
(v. t.) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
(v. t.) Anything that gives acute pain, bodily or mental; as, the stings of remorse; the stings of reproach.
(v. t.) The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
(v. t.) A goad; incitement.
(v. t.) The point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
(v. t.) To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
(v. t.) To pain acutely; as, the conscience is stung with remorse; to bite.
(v. t.) To goad; to incite, as by taunts or reproaches.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(2) I preferred the Times version, as my father would have done had he any interest in Sting.
(3) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(4) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
(5) Colleagues involved in similar Telegraph stings this week included Michael Moore, the Scottish secretary, Ed Davey, a business minister, and Steve Webb, the pensions minister.
(6) Leading figures including the musician Sting, business tycoon Sir Richard Branson and comedian Russell Brand have called for the possession of drugs to be decriminalised.
(7) "It wouldn't have covered the costs but it would have taken the sting out of what I'd spent," he says.
(8) Moderate to severe SRs were equally likely after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, and yellow hornet (65%), honeybee (67%), or wasp (70%), although historical SRs were reported more often after stings of yellow jacket, white-faced hornet, or yellow hornet (30%) than after honeybee (19%) or wasp (14%) stings.
(9) Dramatic cases of hymenoptera stings have been reported from various sources for several years now.
(10) We can expect a greater number of toxic reactions related to multiple stings in addition to the more familiar allergic (IgE-mediated) reactions.
(11) Insect sting challenge in 14 patients with urticarial reaction to last insect sting resulted in two systemic reactions (95% confidence limits 0-6 patients), a reaction rate of 14%.
(12) Those patients who were re-stung within 2 weeks (anergic period) or over 5 years after a generalized reaction to a sting had significantly improved response.
(13) We review the reported cases at our institution with all types of bites and stings.
(14) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
(15) "We're trying to get Sting to wear a Pussy Riot T-shirt at his concert tonight," he'd told me the day before.
(16) 62 patients who had been stung by a red scorpion were admitted from January to December 1990: 18 with hypertension, 15 with supraventricular tachycardia, 11 with pulmonary oedema, and 18 with local pain at the site of sting but no systemic involvement.
(17) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
(18) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(19) Also, the clinical pattern and treatment of the acute renal failure secondary to bee stings are discussed.
(20) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.