drumhead court-martial

English Thesaurus

1. a military court convened to hear urgent charges of offenses committed in action (noun.group)

hypernym	:	court-martial,
definition	:	a military court to try members of the armed services who are accused of serious breaches of martial law (noun.group)

domain category	:	armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine,
definition	:	the military forces of a nation (noun.group)