Drummer

·noun A California sculpin.

II. Drummer ·noun The Squeteague.

III. Drummer ·noun A fish that makes a sound when caught.

IV. Drummer ·noun One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.

V. Drummer ·noun One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

VI. Drummer ·noun A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

drummer
A jockey term for a horse that throws about his fore legs irregularly: the idea is taken from a kett...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
drummer
n. a New South Wales name for the fish Girella elevata, Macl., of the same family as the Black-fish...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
drummer
The marine who beats the drum, and whose pay is equivalent to that of a private of fourteen years' s...

The Sailor's Word-Book