THRUM
\θɹˈʌm], \θɹˈʌm], \θ_ɹ_ˈʌ_m]\
Definitions of THRUM
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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sound the strings of (a guitar or similar string instrument)
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a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
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Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
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A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
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A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
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A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
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To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
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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.
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To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
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Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
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To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
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Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
By Oddity Software
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One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
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Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
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A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
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A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
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A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
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To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
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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.
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To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
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Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
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To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
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Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
By Noah Webster.
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The end of a weaver's warp thread; the row of such threads on the loom after the web has been removed.
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To strum; drum; as, to thrum on a piano.
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Thrummed.
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Thrumming.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The end of a weaver's thread: coarse yarn.
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To furnish with thrums: to fringe: to insert short pieces of rope-yarn in a mat or piece of canvas: to play rudely or monotonously on an instrument with the fingers:-pr.p. thrumming; pa.t. and pa.p. thrummed.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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