bedrum/biˈdɹʌm/EtymologyFrom be- (“about, over”) + drum.verbTo drum about, over, or in celebration for (something).“As the wedding company proceeded to the church, with the town-band bedrumming and becymballing them in the van, she whimpered and sobbed as in the evil hour when the Job's-news reached her, that the wild sea had devoured her husband, with ship and fortune.”