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Drummer

1. One whose office is to best the drum, as in military exercises and marching.

2. One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.

3. (Science: zoology) a fish that makes a sound when caught; as: The squeteague.

a California sculpin.

4. (Science: zoology) a large west indian cockroach (blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.