thunder-drum

English

Noun

thunder-drum (plural thunder-drums)

  1. A large drum giving a deep booming sound when struck, used to imitate the sound of thunder.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72:
      Bull-voices and thunder-drums and the clashing of cymbals were used in this connection by the Greeks, and are mentioned by Aeschylus; but the bull-roarer, in the form of a rhombus of wood whirled at the end of a string, seems to be known, or to have been known, all over the world.
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