drumstick
IPA: drˈʌmstɪk
noun
- A stick used to play drums.
- The second joint of the legbone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food.
- (South Asia, Myanmar) The moringa or drumstick tree, Moringa oleifera, especially its slender, cylindrical pods.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A person's leg.
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Examples of "drumstick" in Sentences
- denticulata, known as drumstick primrose, has umbels of yellow-eyed purple flowers; P.
- Armless icing clowns with "drumstick" legs giving birth to sprinkles on top of four-leaf cupcake clovers.
- He replaced the "drumstick" upon his plate and allowed it to remain there untouched, in spite of a great hunger for it.
- "Trust Jack for that," added Peterkin, who was at that moment deeply engaged with what he called the drumstick of a roast monkey.
- Change the map into a steaming roast turkey by adding the lines to form the wing, the "drumstick," the garnishment and the plate.
- Similar to the way Peking duck is made, the chef dunks each "drumstick" into a hot-oil bath and then uses a ladle to give it final shower of hot oil before finishing it off in the oven.
- With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate.
- Water and sanitation experts are currently investigating if a powder made from the seeds of the Moringa Oleifera, commonly known as the drumstick or horseradish tree, can be used as a filter to purify water.
- When, with its thick, palatable flesh, it is cooked and placed on the table, it is known as the "drumstick" -- a favorite part of the fowl with hungry boys, vying, in their minds, with the "white meat" of the breast.
- This kind of boned chicken may be very well for the mental invalid, but the ordinary child prefers to separate his meat from the "drumstick" by his own unaided effort, and there is no doubt that it is better for him to do so.
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