| 词汇 | drumhead court-martial |
| 词源 | drumhead court-martial. In days past, battlefield courts- martial trying soldiers for desertion, cowardice, and similar of- fenses, were held around a large drumhead (animal skin stretched upon a drum) that served as a table. The brief courts- martial, which usually resulted in immediate death sentences, were thus called drumhead courts-martial, this term first re- corded in 1835. |
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