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NounPlural: thrums |
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| thrum - a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo" | ||
| sound the particular auditory effect produced by a given cause; "the sound of rain on the roof"; "the beautiful sound of music" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- thrum (n.)
One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these. - thrum (n.)
Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope. - thrum (n.)
A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen. - thrum (n.)
A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam. - thrum (n.)
A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. - thrum (v. t.)
To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. - thrum (v. t.)
To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. - thrum (v. i.)
To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum. - thrum (v. i.)
Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table. - thrum (v. t.)
To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner. - thrum (v. t.)
Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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thrum
thrum, n. the end of a weaver's thread, any loose thread or fringe: coarse yarn.—v.t. to furnish with thrums: to fringe: to insert short pieces of rope-yarn in a mat or piece of canvas:—pr.p. thrum′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. thrummed.—ns. Thrum′-cap, -hat (Shak.), a cap or hat made of thrums or of coarse, shaggy cloth.—adj. Thrum′my, made of, or like, thrums. [Ice. þrómr, the edge; Ger. trumm, a fragment.] -
thrum
thrum, v.i. to play rudely or monotonously on an instrument with the fingers.—n. a monotonous sound, as that made by unskilled fingers on a harp, &c.—n. Thrum′mer
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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Any coarse woollen or hempen yarn. It is used for mops, &c., in the cabins; also for mats, which are worked on canvas with a large bolt-rope needle.--To thrum. A vessel, when leaky, is thrummed by working some heavy spare sail, as the sprit-sail, into a thrummed mat, greasing and tarring it well, passing it under the bottom, and heaving all parts tight. The pressure forces the tarred oakum into the openings, and thus, in part, arrests the ingress of water.
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