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drum
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bang/beat the drum
to speak eagerly about something that you support. Once again she was banging the drum for pre-school nurseries. (often + for) The opposition parties are always beating the environmental drum.
See also: bang, beat
beat the drum
to attract attention. The president said he will beat the drum to build public support for his education program.
Usage notes: sometimes followed by for: Who is beating the drum for the parents' rights act?
See also: beat

drum something into someone

to teach something to someone by frequent repetition. Firefighters rely on training that's drummed into them through repeated exercises.

drum someone out of something

to force someone to leave a job or organization. A lot of writers and directors were drummed out of the film business in the 1950s because they were suspected of being communists.

drum up something

to create interest in something. The best way to drum up excitement for a book is to get people to talk about it.
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As an inventor of Through-Air Drying technology, Fleissner Company has supplied more than 45,000 Through-Air drums up to 8000 mm wide and 4800 mm (16 ft) in diameter to customers all over the world from the textile, nonwovens, man-made fibers and paper industries in the past 70 years.
Fleissner: through-air drying technology by Solutions - for People, Processes and Paper
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Uniloy Milacron's first multilayer drum machines were accumulator-head models, but the firm has now developed a continuous-extrusion model to produce small multi-layer or mono-layer drums up to 15 gal.
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