A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a
private house; a rout.

A tea party; a kettledrum.

The tympanum of the ear; – often, but incorrectly, applied
to the tympanic membrane.

See Drumfish.

One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of
which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether
circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome.

A small cylindrical box in which figs, etc., are packed.

Anything resembling a drum in form

i. davul, bateri. My son plays the drums. (Oğlum bateri çalar.)

A sheet iron radiator, often in the shape of a drum, for
warming an apartment by means of heat received from a stovepipe, or a
cylindrical receiver for steam, etc.

A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of
driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its
periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or
chain is wound.