To clash. Obsolete.

transitive and intransitive. To touch (rare); to beat the drum; also intransitive of a drum: To sound.

Used intransitively and transitively of the beating or sound of a drum. Also reduplicated dub-a-dub, n., rub-a-dub. Cf. dub, n.3

(Predicated of a drum or other instrument itself). intransitive. = To be beaten, to sound when beaten.

intransitive. Originally Military. Of a drum: to sound a ruff or ruffle. Also transitive: to beat a ruff or ruffle upon (a drum). Obsolete.

dialect. To tremble, to vibrate; applied also to the rolling sound of a drum. In this sense akin to dunder, dunner.

intransitive. Scottish. Of a drum: to sound a ruffle (ruffle, n.4). Obsolete. rare.

To make a thundering noise, to ‘thunder’. rare.