Rappel: alternatives and connections

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang…

To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or ra…

To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the ge…

To utter in a loud or distinct voice; -- often with off; as, to call, or call off, the items of an account; to call the roll of a mili…

A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…

A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum.

Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in whic…

The act or exercise of training soldiers in the military art, as in the manual of arms, in the execution of evolutions, and the like;…

(With up) To assemble by, or as by, beat of drum; to collect; to gather or draw by solicitation; as, to drum up recruits; to drum up c…

The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.

A row of soldiers ranged one behind another; -- in contradistinction to rank, which designates a row of soldiers standing abreast; a n…

The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.

A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry.

A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.

Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military para…

Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers.

A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disabil…