drummed ['drʌmd]
桶装的
Drum \Drum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drummed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drumming}.]
1. To beat a drum with sticks; to beat or play a tune on a
drum.
2. To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with
a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that
of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his
wings.
Drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair.
--W. Irving.
3. To throb, as the heart. [R.] --Dryden.
4. To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to
draw or secure partisans, customers, etc,; -- with for.
- "It's been drummed into us by every policymaker, including Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, that a weak dollar leads to higher inflation."
- And they drummed home the message that education meant jobs.
- However, some observers are sceptical about the amount of interest that will be drummed up in Europe, given the small number of speculative funds relative to the US market.
- But when Tower wanted the job of defense secretary, his former colleagues turned on him viciously and drummed him out of public service.
- Bush said he still endorses Tower, and that he should not be drummed out of the Cabinet appointment by rumors.
- Those realities were drummed home earlier last week at a private meeting with other union leaders and members of his own executive which appear to have convinced Mr Scargill of the need for pragmatism. Some things certainly don't change.
- Mr. Broadhead "wasn't drummed out and there was no difference of opinion," said Jack Grubman of PaineWebber Inc.
- Historians may remember Don Regan as the White House chief of staff who was drummed out of office in the Iran-Contra furor.
- Investment bankers drummed up business by selling closed-end funds, particularly municipal bond funds and various country funds banking on Europe's expansion.
- This mindset is drummed into analysts the minute they set foot in Langley, though.
- Car thefts dropped dramatically after the military drummed out hundreds of sticky-fingered troops, the country's constabulary chief said today.
- That acknowledgement ensures they will be "drummed out" of VMI if they try to return, a spokesman and a number of cadets said.
- Certainly, the victory rolls already being drummed out in the opposition press seem absurdly premature.
- Anheuser-Busch Inc., the nation's largest brewer, began submerging congressional offices with more than 1 million letters and 1.3 million petition signatures it has drummed up in a well-advertised campaign to block higher beer taxes.