Bedrum
//biˈdɹʌm// verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To drum about, over, or in celebration for (something). transitive
"As the wedding company proceeded to the church, with the town-band bedrumming and becymballing them in the van, she whimpered and sobbed as in the evil hour when the Job's-news reached her, that the wild sea had devoured her husband, with ship and fortune."
Example
More examples"As the wedding company proceeded to the church, with the town-band bedrumming and becymballing them in the van, she whimpered and sobbed as in the evil hour when the Job's-news reached her, that the wild sea had devoured her husband, with ship and fortune."
Etymology
From be- (“about, over”) + drum.
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