drum-head

A few hints can do you no harm; and, for the prize-money, let the battle be first won, and it shall be parted at the drum-head.

The Monastery 2008

While he was thus dangled in a state of suspension, a German trooper was transiently smit with the charms of his mother, who listened to his honourable addresses, and once more received the silken bonds of matrimony; the ceremony having been performed as usual at the drum-head.

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

A drum-head court was convened at once and the prisoner led in.

The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War

And he will prove a poor traveler who can not sit down with a good appetite to a supper of small black beans (_frijoles_), and a dozen Indian cakes (_tortillas_), as thin and as tough as a drum-head, which serve the double purpose of spoon and plate.

Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited Robert A. Wilson

The requirement that a suitor shall guess correctly the kind of skin from which a certain drum-head is made (usually a louse-skin) is to be found in Italian

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

_ All such as can be identified in having been engaged in bridge-burning are to be tried summarily by drum-head court martial, and, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 03, March, 1889 Various

The estimate is that five hundred and fifty were hung by order of drum-head court-martials, five hundred destroyed by the Maroons, two thousand shot by the soldiery, and that three hundred women were catted, and how many men nobody presumes even to guess.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

The English pipe and tabor is a similar combination, also with one player, of such a pipe and a small drum-head tambourine.

Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various

Among the troops on picket near Flatbush, on the 25th, were Colonel Silliman and his Connecticut battalion; and from the colonel, who wrote from there, on a drum-head, to his wife, we get a glimpse of the situation at that point during his tour of duty.

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

Every morning, whatsoever thing has been changed, and whatsoever thing has been unchanged, during the night, comes up to batter its report on the omni-audient tympanum of the universe, the drum-head of the press.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various