Thump

n. [An onomatopoetic word. Cf. Ger. dumpf, dull, dead, hollow; e. g., ein dumpfer ton, a hollow sound.]

1Sense 1. The sudden fall of a heavy weight.

With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge.

2Sense 2. The sound made by the sudden fall of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. “The distant forge’s swinging thump profound.” Wordsworth.

The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock. Tatler.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. THUMPED (thŭmt, 84); p. pr. & vb. n. THUMPING.] To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.

Those bastard Britons, whom our fathers Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped. Shak.