The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
The sound so produced.
The outer side of the hand.
The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Cheap wine.
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To pull or twitch sharply.
To remove feathers from a bird.
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.