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What is a kettledrum?

What is a kettledrum? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension.
  2. (dated) An informal social party at which a light collation is offered, held in the afternoon or early evening.
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The carpenter sat beside him with a kettledrum, more literally a kettledrum even than the real thing, for that drum was a kettle!
He was tall and light-skinned, with a kettledrum chest and the kind of fat stomach that somehow manages to look hard: the body of a tight end.
The oblong panels in the zone towards the base of the kettledrum show a kufic inscription of unknown content.
This kettledrum was probably used in falconry to call the falcon back to the owner.
Its thunder, which began as a distant kettledrum murmur, approaches with ever-sharper cracks that rock the canyon, rattling us in the process.
Naker, small kettledrum that reached Europe from the Middle East in the 13th century, during the Crusades.

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