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Naker

//ˈneɪkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A small drum, of Arabic origin, and the forebear of the European kettledrum.

    "the Norman trumpets from the battlements […], mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the nakers, (a species of kettle-drum,) retorted in notes of defiance the challenge of the enemy."

Etymology

From Old French nacaire, nacre (cognate with Italian nacchera, mediaeval Latin nacara), from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra, “drum”).

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