drumhead

He tethers a female spider onto a nylon surface that is stretched like a drumhead.

He tethers a female spider onto a nylon surface stretched like a drumhead and then adds a male.

How can you catch trout with everything frozen as tight as a drumhead?

The paper, having been previously damped, in drying contracts and tightens like a drumhead.

When Josiah awoke the Mary Ellen was heeled over on her side, her sail as tight as a drumhead.

A drumhead court-martial sentenced the young Virginian to receive one hundred lashes on the bare back.

In the back of his head there formed a little picture—a drumhead court-martial, a provost guard, a tree and a rope.