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. |