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drum·stick

 (drŭm′stĭk′)
n.
1. A stick for beating a drum.
2. The lower part of the leg of a fowl, especially when cooked.
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drumstick

(ˈdrʌmˌstɪk)
n
1. (Instruments) a stick used for playing a drum
2. (Cookery) the lower joint of the leg of a cooked fowl
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

drum•stick

(ˈdrʌmˌstɪk)

n.
1. a stick for beating a drum.
2. the meaty leg of a chicken, turkey, or other fowl.
[1580–90]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.drumstick - the lower joint of the leg of a fowldrumstick - the lower joint of the leg of a fowl
helping, serving, portion - an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
bird, fowl - the flesh of a bird or fowl (wild or domestic) used as food
turkey drumstick, turkey leg - the lower joint of the leg of a turkey
chicken drumstick, chicken leg - the lower joint of the leg of a chicken
dark meat - the flesh of the legs of fowl used as food
2.drumstick - a stick used for playing a drum
mallet, hammer - a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
stick - an implement consisting of a length of wood; "he collected dry sticks for a campfire"; "the kid had a candied apple on a stick"
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Translations
رِجْل الدَّجاج المَطْبوخعَصا الطَّبْل
palička na bubenstehno
lårtrommestav
csirkecombdobverõdobverő
leggurtrommukjuðitrommukjuîi
bagetbutdavul tokmağı

drumstick

[ˈdrʌmstɪk] N
1. (Mus) → baqueta f, palillo m de tambor
2. (= chicken leg) → muslo m
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

drumstick

[ˈdrʌmstɪk] n
(for playing the drum)baguette f de tambour
(= chicken leg) → pilon m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

drumstick

n
(Mus) → Trommelschlägel or -stock m
(on chicken etc) → Keule f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

drumstick

[ˈdrʌmˌstɪk] n
a. (Mus) → bacchetta
b. (chicken leg) → coscia di pollo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

drum

(dram) noun
1. a musical instrument constructed of skin etc stretched on a round frame and beaten with a stick. He plays the drums.
2. something shaped like a drum, especially a container. an oil-drum.
3. an eardrum.
verbpast tense, past participle drummed
1. to beat a drum.
2. to tap continuously especially with the fingers. Stop drumming (your fingers) on the table!
3. to make a sound like someone beating a drum. The rain drummed on the metal roof.
ˈdrummer noun
a person who plays the drums.
ˈdrumstick noun
1. a stick used for beating a drum.
2. the lower part of the leg of a cooked chicken etc.
drum in/into
to force someone to remember (something) by repeating it constantly. You never remember anything unless I drum it in/into you.
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References in classic literature ?
The little Snow children did very well, and Lieutenant Jack Dove was fine to see; so was Drummer Frank, the errand-boy of the house, as he rub-a-dub-dubbed with all his heart and drumsticks. Jamie had "trained" before, and was made a colonel at once; but Pokey was the best of all, and called forth a spontaneous burst of applause from the spectators as she brought up the rear, her cocked hat all over one eye, her flag trailing over her shoulder, and her wooden sword straight up in the air; her face beaming and every curl bobbing with delight as her fat legs tottered in the vain attempt to keep step manfully.
"I observed that Amy took drumsticks at dinner, ran errands for her mother all the afternoon, gave Meg her place tonight, and has waited on every on with patience and good humor.
His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the drumsticks. For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
They was like drumsticks i' stockin' two month' ago--an' I heard folk tell as they was bandy an' knock-kneed both at th' same time.
Not because I was squeezed in at an acute angle of the table-cloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn't want to speak), nor because I was regaled with the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls, and with those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain.
He clapped his hands on his breast, and looked most piteously at the ladies, for a single instant; and then, to use the language oft Billy, when he afterward recounted the tale, “no drumsticks ever went faster on the skin of a sheep than the Frenchman’s legs, for a round or two; and then such swearing and spitting in French you never saw.
No wonder that man added this bird to his tame stock -- to say nothing of the eggs and drumsticks. To walk in a winter morning in a wood where these birds abounded, their native woods, and hear the wild cockerels crow on the trees, clear and shrill for miles over the resounding earth, drowning the feebler notes of other birds -- think of it!
Savory morsels of ham, golden blocks of corn-cake, fragments of pie of every conceivable mathematical figure, chicken wings, gizzards, and drumsticks, all appeared in picturesque confusion; and Sam, as monarch of all he surveyed, sat with his palm-leaf cocked rejoicingly to one side, and patronizing Andy at his right hand.
The Moringa or "drumstick" tree (moringa oleifera) "is an all-natural, inexpensive and accessible multi-vitamin," says Lowell Fuglie, West Africa representative of Church World Service.
On Tuesday, bookmakers at Uttoxeter were asked to produce field books for races staged at Warwick on November 5 1996, the day Man Mood was controversially pulled up in the two-horse race won by Drumstick.
* Ounce for ounce, which has more fat: skinless chicken thigh or skinless drumstick? (The thigh has twice as much.)
To help you cool off, we raided supermarkets and convenience stores and tried every popsicle, drumstick and ice cream bar we could find so we can tell you which ones are good.