[f. as prec. + -ER1.] One who plays the kettledrum.
1683. Claverhouse, in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. VIII. 284. Licence to import … gray cloath for the trompeters and ketledrumers.
1807. W. Irving, Salmag. (1824), 72. The kettle-drummers … are confounded and lost in the military crowd.
