English
thrum
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /θɹʌm/
  • (America) IPA: /θɹʌm/
Noun

thrum (plural thrums)

  1. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
    • 1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, Chapter 2:
      Pungent sweat and heatedly trodden grass, fumes of tea and porter, thrum of hooves from the paddock, the strikings-up and dyings-down of the band all fused into an extreme for Antonia, whose own senses, boatful, stood up to it.
  2. (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
Verb

thrum (thrums, present participle thrumming; past and past participle thrummed)

  1. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
    She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
  2. To make a monotonous drumming noise.
    to thrum on a table
Translations
  • Russian: бренча́ть
Noun

thrum (plural thrums)

  1. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
  2. (chiefly in plural) A fringe made of such threads.
  3. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
  4. (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
  5. (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
  6. (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
  7. (nautical, chiefly in plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
  8. (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
  9. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Translations Adjective

thrum (not comparable)

  1. Made of or woven from thrum.
    • 1768, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, "The Husband: Paris"
      In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he seldom comes there:—in some dark and dismal room behind, he sits commerce-less, in his thrum nightcap, the same rough son of Nature that Nature left him.
Verb

thrum (thrums, present participle thrumming; past and past participle thrummed)

  1. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
    • are we born to thrum caps or pick straw?
  2. (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
    to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface


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