Noun
1. a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretch across each end
2. the sound of a drum;
"he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"3. a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
4. a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
5. a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
6. small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise