drummer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who plays a drum

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Drum"mer noun
Definitions
  1. One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.
  2. One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler. Colloq. U.S. Bartlett.
  3. (Zoöl.) A fish that makes a sound when caught; as: (a) The squeteague. (b) A California sculpin.
  4. (Zoöl.) A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

Webster 1913