(haggling) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
(transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
To tread, as a path.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
To be in agitation or doubt.
To make a sound when struck.
(military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
