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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Thrum

Thrŭm, n.

noun

[Written also thrumb.] [Icel. thröm, edge, lip, O. H. Ger. drum, end, D. dreum, L. Ger. drum, drôm, drâm, draum, drömt, N. H. Ger. trumm, a lump, end, fragment.] 1. One of the ends of weavers’ threads; a tuft. Tapestries all golden fringed, and curled with thrums behind. Chapman.

  1. Any coarse yarn. Bacon.
  2. (Bot.) One of the thread-like, internal bushy parts of a flower; a stamen.
  3. A shove out of place; a small displacement of fault along a seam, met with in mining.

Thrŭm, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [Icel. thruma, to groan, to sigh, to thunder, Prov. Ger. drummen, trummen, equivalent to H. Ger. trommeln, trümmen, to play the jew’s-harp.] To play rudely or monotonously on an instrument with the fingers.

Thrŭm, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. THRUMMED; p. pr. & vb. n. THRUMMING.] [See THRUM, n.] 1. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. Are we born to thrum caps or pick straw? Quarles.

  1. (Naut.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun-yarn in, as a sail or mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. Totten.
  2. To play, as an instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.