Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

drumhead court-martial

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English

Syllables: drum-head- -court--mar-tial
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

7

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.

Example Sentences

"So of course the citizen was only waiting for the wink of the word and he starts gassing out of him about the invincibles and the old guard and the men of sixtyseven and who fears to speak of ninetyeight and Joe with him about all the fellows that were hanged, drawn and transported for the cause by drumhead courtmartial and a new Ireland and new this, that and the other."
"Between the summer of 1906 and the beginning of 1907, Prime Minister Stolypin used the powers which the Emergency Laws gave him to have more than one thousand terrorists sentenced to death by drumhead courts martial (voennye polevye sudy)."
"See also citations under drum-head court."

Etymology

Perhaps because a drum head had to be used as a meeting point or an improvised writing table.

Inflected Forms

drumhead court-martials (plural)

Synonyms

drum-head court drumhead tribunal

Questions

What does drumhead court-martial mean?: A court-martial held in the field to hear urgent charges of offences committed in action.
Where does drumhead court-martial come from?: Perhaps because a drum head had to be used as a meeting point or an improvised writing table.

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