Definition of "drumsticks" [drumsticks]

• Plural form of drumstick. (noun)

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• "As soon, therefore, as they had finished with the flesh of the peacock -- and while Ossaroo, who continued eating longer than any of them, was still engaged in polishing off the "drumsticks" -- the point of replenishing the larder became the subject of their conversation; and all agreed that to get up a stock of provisions had now become a matter of primary importance."
• "A dollar a wing isn’t cheap, so an order of meaty drumsticks is a nice alternative."
• "Parents of chickens have I seen this day, followed by their wretched young families, scratching nothing out of the mud with an air -- tottering about on legs so scraggy and weak, that the valiant word drumsticks becomes a mockery when applied to them, and the crow of the lord and master has been a mere dejected case of croup."