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Remove salt from longboats in drums (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bongo

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'remove salt from longboats in drums' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.

'remove salt from longboats' is the wordplay.
'remove' indicates anagramming the letters (move the letters again).
'from' is a deletion indicator.
'longboats' with 'salt' removed is 'ongbo'.
'ongbo' anagrammed gives 'BONGO'.

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(Other definitions for bongo that I've seen before include "Small Cuban drum" , "Type of drum - central African antelope" , "Rare African antelope" , "Hand-played drum" , "One beaten" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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