Some think it is spherical, others that it is flat and drum-shaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Heavens] Reference

If you draw lines from the centre of the earth they cut out a drum-shaped figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meteorology] Reference

I love the contrast between the tall skinny building and the short drum-shaped buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Reasoning : Scrubbles.net] Reference

She still wore the drum-shaped rabbit-skin cap pulled well down over her forehead for driving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Plains] Reference

The large drum-shaped box A.A. is hollow, and filled a little more than half way up with water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference

They watched a door open in the side of the drum-shaped container that made up half of ABEL's body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covergent Series]

The archaeologist strode around her table, sliding the walking cane back into its holder, a drum-shaped basket made from an onulet's foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

    The archaeologist strode around her table, sliding the walking cane back into its holder, a drum-shaped basket made from an onulet's foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers' War]

This supported a round drum-shaped feature constructed from white marble, about the size of the average threshing floor and roughly three feet high.    From Wordnik.com.  [See Delphi and Die]

Nobody was allowed in here except the bridge staff and Chaison himself — nobody except for the one person he did find when he entered the drum-shaped room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

They've covered enough, and if the museum can overcome last-minute glitches, like a drum-shaped theater that "isn't working out," the short-term prognosis is good.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Next, The Edward Vedder Wing?] Reference

The generating plant made by this firm comprises a drum-shaped carbide holder mounted above a generating tank, a condenser, a washer, an equalising gasholder, and a purifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference

This drum-shaped clay oven is not commonly used in individual homes; at one time, community tandoors were common in some parts of North India, and today, tandoor ovens can be found in restaurants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

A late 15th - to early 16th-century piece perhaps best embodies buncheong's spirit: On a slightly off-kilter drum-shaped vessel the artist has drawn a bird, wings and tail extended, swooping to catch a fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Korean Culture Flourished] Reference

Beside him was Ch'kessa, Prime in Council of the Clan Towns of Att. Ch'kessa's home community sprawled down the slope, a collection of neat, whitewashed, drum-shaped houses where several thousand individuals lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rebel Worlds]

The main provisions market boasted two elegant pavilions, one round and drum-shaped with arches, one octagonal with a Corinthian colonnade — possibly built by different benefactors who had independent views on effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

It is produced by a drum-shaped expansion of the larynx.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference

Inside the drum-shaped silver hotel, there is a giant alphorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwaider Planet] Reference

Qualco also is installing several gigantic drum-shaped composters.    From Wordnik.com.  [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference

It was a drum-shaped superstructure, a sort of underground penthouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Computer] Reference

The shoonoon, on their drum-shaped cushions, stared at him in silence, aghast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oomphel in the Sky] Reference

Available in four forms, ranging in price from the large drum-shaped Meridian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arkansas Online stories] Reference

The locomotives are usually dirty and black with outside cylinders, and great drum-shaped steam-domes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Normandy, Illustrated, Complete] Reference

His (possible) pupil, Anaximander, thought the world was drum-shaped and that people lived on the of the flat sides.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

Single stage snowblowers have augers, rotating drum-shaped wheels for cutting and lifting the snow into the disposal chute.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference

We used these black velvet drum-shaped things with black thread and little bits of white cloth rotating and reflecting on windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mania News Feed] Reference

In those days, the USGS had a room filled with drum-shaped seismographs that translated ground movement into a homely scrawl on paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Reference

The double-storey drum-shaped Hard Rock Cafe is the place to see and be seen as the party rages on every night with its resident band.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASIA Travel Tips.com] Reference

The company's specialty is a drum-shaped skimmer, which Elastec executives say captures more oil and less seawater than other devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

Its gray, drum-shaped exterior, propped up on four massive concrete legs, has a bunker-like appearance that seems to keep the city at a distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

That drum-shaped superstructure couldn't even hold the personnel-record machine they had found here, or the computers at the Storisende Stock Exchange.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Computer] Reference

"The drab, drum-shaped home of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit .... has the look of a Seventies bus station waiting for the council to pull it down.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

In its current design, the section inside the building would include hundreds of seats, a temporary stage and a view of other visitors inside the multileveled, drum-shaped museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Washington Times stories: Latest Headlines] Reference

The enormous drum-shaped effigy will also contain the Inuit translation of the word ‘look‘ … to which the question can be put: look at what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salma Hayek Marries A Billionaire For Some Reason] Reference

"Did you realize that the history of the rare gnome rock tumbler -- a drum-shaped, crank-driven device used to reduce stones to sand -- is long and very interesting?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kendermore]