thrum

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /θɹʌm/ (General American) IPA(key): /θɹʌm/ Rhymes: -ʌm === Etymology 1 === Imitative. ==== Noun ==== thrum (plural thrums) A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang. ==== Verb ==== thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed) To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. To make a monotonous drumming noise. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse thrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen. ==== Alternative forms ==== thrumb ==== Noun ==== thrum (plural thrums) The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel. (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen. (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root. (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus. (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops. (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam. ===== Derived terms ===== thrum-eyed ===== Translations ===== ==== Adjective ==== thrum (not comparable) Made of or woven from thrum. ==== Verb ==== thrum (third-person singular simple present thrums, present participle thrumming, simple past and past participle thrummed) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for […] afflicted Soules are we born to thrum caps or pick straw? (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 === Etymology 3 === Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/). ==== Noun ==== thrum (plural thrums) (obsolete, slang) A threepenny bit. Synonym: thrummer ===== References ===== === Anagrams === murth