[f. prec. sb.] intr. To beat the kettledrum; to make a noise like a kettledrum. Hence Kettledrumming vbl. sb.
1848. B. Webb, Continental Ecclesiol., 277. There was a great deal too much trumpeting and kettle-drumming in the orchestra.
1893. Crockett, Stickit Minister, 175. He heard … his own heart kettle-drumming in his ears.
