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) (transitive) To cause a steady rhythmic vibration in (something), usually by plucking. (intransitive) 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 þrǫmr (“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. 1899, Belding Bros. & Co, Silk Culture and Manufacturing Shown Progressively (page 43) The twister is given a harness filled with thrums or short ends of the old warp which has been returned from the looms. These thrums of silk are all that remain of the last warps. (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 thrummy ===== 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