English

Noun
en-noun|sg=tom-tom

1. onomat A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.

#* 1926, w:H. P. Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft, s:The Call of Cthulhu|The Call of Cthulhu,
#*: It was voodoo, apparently, but voodoo of a more terrible sort than they had ever known; and some of their women and children had disappeared since the malevolent tom-tom had begun its incessant beating far within the black haunted woods where no dweller ventured.

1. i|usually as a pair Any cylindrical drum, with no snare; part of a drum kit.

See also
tam-tam

io:tom-tom

• 2007-10-17 15:05 - Connel MacKenzie - [[User:Connel MacKenzie/Format|fmt]], ===Hdr===, {{infl}} (en)

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