Snare Drum Word Search

Illustrated Snare Drum scene — AI-generated artwork behind this musical instrument's word search puzzle
Illustrated Snare Drum scene — AI-generated artwork behind this musical instrument's word search puzzle

Snare Drum, as a word search. 12 words drawn from its parts, its materials, and how it is played sit hidden in a 15×15 letter grid, running in every direction. Drag across a word to claim it, and clear the board to finish.

Words to find: SHELL, BATTERHEAD, RESONANTHEAD, RIMS, LUGS, TENSIONROD, SNAREWIRES, STRAINER, THROWOFF, STEEL, ALUMINUM, BRASS.

Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.

Snare Drum word list, defined

SHELL /ʃel/ · noun, verb
The outer covering of a tree seed, typically hard and woody. To remove the outer covering of something, especially a nut or a seed. Related: husk, peel, covering, exoskeleton.
RIMS /rɪmz/ · noun
The edge or border of a wheel, or the circular part of a wheel that surrounds the hub. In sports, the metal ring that holds the tire in place. Related: edges, borders, circumferences, rings.
STRAINER /strɛnər/ · noun
A kitchen utensil used to strain liquids, or a device used to separate solid particles from a liquid. It can also refer to a device used to strain or filter something, such as a musical instrument. Related: sieve, colander, filter, sifter.
STEEL /ˈstiːl/ · noun
A hard, silver-white, ductile, and malleable alloy of iron and carbon, widely used for making tools, machinery, and building materials. Related: iron, metal, alloy, steel alloy.
ALUMINUM /əˈluːmɪnəm/ · noun
A lightweight, silvery-white metallic element (symbol Al, atomic number 13) that is the most abundant metal in the Earth's crust and is widely used in aircraft construction, packaging, cookware, and electrical transmission.
BRASS /bræs/ · noun
A yellow alloy of copper and zinc, used widely for ornaments, instruments, fittings, and hardware; also, in informal British usage, money or cash. Related: bronze, copper, metal.

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