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Drum vs Puncheon - What's the difference?

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Drum is a related term of puncheon.


As nouns the difference between drum and puncheon

is that drum is a percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it while puncheon is a figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.

As a verb drum

is to beat a drum.

drum

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber, affecting what materials are used to make it.
  • Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
  • In particular, a barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
    • The restaurant ordered ketchup in 50-gallon drums .
  • A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 631:
    • Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum .
  • (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola
  • (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar
  • A drumfish.
  • (slang, UK) A person's home.
  • A tip, a piece of information.
  • * 1985 , (Peter Carey), Illywhacker , Faber and Faber 2003, page 258:
    • ‘he is the darndest little speaker we got, so better sit there and listen to him while he gives you the drum and if you clean out your earholes you might get a bit of sense into your heads.’

    Derived terms

    * bass drum * drum and bass * drum beat * drum brake * drum kit * drummer * drum roll * drumstick * drum stick * hand drum * kettledrum * snare drum * tenor drum

    See also

    * percussion

    Verb

    (drumm)
  • To beat a drum.
  • (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
    • The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
  • * Washington Irving
    • drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair
  • To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
    • He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
  • To throb, as the heart.
    • (Dryden)
  • To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for .

    • Derived terms

    * drummer

    puncheon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * punchion

    Noun

    (puncheons)
  • A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
  • A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
  • A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 7:
    • he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].
  • A cask used to hold liquids, having a capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons; a tercian.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , p. 205:
    • Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
  • * 1913 ,
    • Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion , and dropped it in a baking-tin.