The Clue
Oil container (4 letter answer)
The Answer
DRUM
Tags
Notes
The answer DRUM is common and appears about once every 350 puzzles.
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Bongo, for one
Snare, for one
Tabor
Tambourine
One of the timpani
Beat it!
Big barrel
Bongo or conga
Cable spool
Croaker's kin
Instrument for Ringo
Kettle or snare
Kind of head
Kind of roll
Kind of stick
Large barrel
Oil holder
Recipient of a beating
One expected to get beaten
Roll maker?
Run (out of)
Snare, maybe
Something to beat
Tambour, e.g.
Tap rhythmically
Tom-tom
Type of roll
Beat it, Ringo!
It takes a beating
Kind of roll or fish
Type of table or major
Definition
DRUM as a noun:
1. (drum, membranophone, tympan) = a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
2. the sound of a drum; "he could hear the drums before he heard the fifes"
3. (barrel, drum) = a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
4. (drum, metal drum) = a cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids
5. (brake drum, drum) = a hollow cast-iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
6. (drum, drumfish) = small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
DRUM as a verb:
1. (drum, beat, thrum) = make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night"
2. play a percussion instrument
3. (cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone) = study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"