tympanize

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make into a drum.
• To act the part of a drummer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb rare To drum.
• transitive verb obsolete To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb obsolete, transitive To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum.