Bass Drum - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: bass drumBass drum
The largest of the different kinds of drums having two heads and emitting a deep grave sound See Bass a...
Bass viol
A stringed instrument of the viol family used for playing bass See 3d Bass n and Violoncello...
Sea bass
A large marine food fish Serranus atrarius syn Centropristis atrarius which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States It is dark bluish with black bands and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches Called also locally blue bass black sea bass blackfish bluefish and black perch...
Drumming
The act of beating upon or as if upon a drum also the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring by beating his wings upon his sides...
Drum winding
A method of armature winding in which the wire is wound upon the outer surface of a cylinder or drum from end to end of the cylinder distinguished from ring winding etc...
Bass's Act (English)
Bass's Act (English), the Metropolitan Police Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 55), for the better regulation of Street Music within the Metropolitan Police District. See MUSICIAN....
Capstan
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder revolving on an upright spindle and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers It is much used especially on shipboard for moving or raising heavy weights or exerting great power by traction upon a rope or cable passing around the drum It is operated either by steam power or by a number of men walking around the capstan each pushing on the end of a lever fixed in its socket...
Drumbeat
The sound of a beaten drum drum music...
Multigraph
A combined rotary type setting and printing machine for office use The type is transferred semi automatically by means of keys from a type supply drum to a printing drum The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print ldquotypewrittenrdquo letters or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate as in a printing press...
paradiddle
The sound of a drum especially a snare drum beaten rapidly and continuously...
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