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DRUMLIN 







Drum. Examples of military and orchestral instruments. 1. Guards 1 bass drum. 

 2. Orchestral side-drum. 3. Military side-drum. 4. Guards' pattern side-drum. 

 5. Cavalry kettledrums. 6. Sticks for side-drum. 7. Sticks for bass drum 



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metal sides, is played with hard 

 wooden sticks, as is also the deeper 

 military side-drum of wood. The 

 largest is the bass drum, struck 

 horizontally by heavy padded 

 sticks. Of intermediate size is the 

 tenor drum, used in bands of pipers. 

 See Bagpipe ; Cymbal, 



Drum. In engineering, a cy- 

 linder, usually of cast iron or cast 

 steel, mounted on a shaft and 

 geared up to an engine, motor, or 

 hand lever. A hoisting or hauling 

 rope or chain is secured to the drum 

 or may be given several turns 

 round it. When the machinery is 

 set in motion the drum, revolving, 

 winds the rope around itself, pay- 

 ing out an equal length when the 

 rope merely passes round it with- 

 out being secured to it. 



Drumclog. Hamlet of Lanark- 

 shire, Scotland. It is 6 m. S.W. of 

 Strathaven, near the border of 

 Ayrshire, and was the scene of a 

 victory of the Covenanters over 

 the king's troops under Claverhouse 

 (Viscount Dundee), on Sunday, 

 June 1, 1679. A granite obelisk 

 marks the site of the battle. Drum- 

 clog figures in Scott's OldMortality. 

 See Covenanters. 



Drum-Fire. Expression for a 

 rapid bombardment said by the 

 German Staff account of the 

 battles of Champagne to have been 

 first used on the Champagne front 

 in Feb., 1915. It is, however, much 

 older, and occurs in Tolstoi's de- 

 scription of the Allies' bombard- 

 ment of Sevastopol in Aug., 1855. 



Drum Language. Method of 

 communication by drum -signals, 

 employed by primitive peoples. It 

 has a possible range of 10m. Across 



Central Africa, from the Nile to 

 Cameroons, it is in daily use for the 

 exchange of news. 



Drumlanrig Castle. Seat of 

 the duke of Buccleuch in Dum- 

 friesshire, Scotland. It stands on 

 the Nith, 17 m. N.W. of Dumfries. 

 It was built (1679-89) by the 1st 

 duke of Queensberry, and suffered 

 damage at the hands of Prince 

 Charles Edward in 1745. In the 

 grounds are the remains of Tibber's 

 Castle, destroyed by Robert Bruce 

 in 1311. 



Drumlin. Arched, oval-shaped 

 hills composed of till or boulder- 

 clay usually containing rock frag- 

 ments. They often attain a length 

 exceeding a mile and a height of 



from 100 ft. to 200 ft., and as they 

 were formed below great ice sheets, 

 they are common in glaciated 

 regions, e.g. central Ireland, the 

 Scottish lowlands, and the New 

 England States (U.S.A. 1 ). 



Drumclog. The battle on Drumclog Moor, Lanarkshire, in which the Covenanters 

 defeated Graham of Claverhoose, June 1, 1679 



Painting by Sir George Harvey, &S.A. 



