Bedrum vs Redrum - What's the difference?
bedrum | redrum |
To drum about; drum over; drum in celebration for.
*1874 , Thomas Carlyle, Works: Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter :
*1896 , John Ruskin, Fors clavigera :
*1897 , The Canadian magazine:
To place into new drums (barrels).
* 1990 , Edwin F. Barth, Stabilization and solidification of hazardous wastes , page 133:
As verbs the difference between bedrum and redrum
is that bedrum is to drum about; drum over; drum in celebration for while redrum is to place into new drums (barrels).bedrum
English
Verb
(bedrumm)- 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.
- [...] and to thrust themselves, with the utmost of their soul and strength, to the highest, by them attainable, pinnacle of the most bedrummed and betrumpeted booth in the Fair of the World.
- This bedrummed and betrumpeted man of genius cannot read the A B a b of the human emotions.
redrum
English
Verb
(redrumm)- The most common procedure used to overcome these problems is to redrum' the contents. [...] Although the labor cost increases because of implied ' redrumming requirements, the primary increase in cost is that of the drums.
