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noun 
  1. (onomat) A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.
    • 1926, w:H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft, s:The Call of Cthulhu, The Call of Cthulhu,
    • : It was voodoo, apparently, but voodoo of a more terrible sort than they had ever known; and some of their women and children had disappeared since the malevolent had begun its incessant beating far within the black haunted woods where no dweller ventured.
      1. (i, usually as a pair) Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit.

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