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noun
Thrum  n.  (Written also thrumb)  
1.
One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
2.
Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
3.
(Bot.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
4.
(Mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
5.
(Naut.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
Thrum cap, a knitted cap.
Thrum hat, a hat made of coarse woolen cloth.






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"Thrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... there was but a faint thrum far up the lake. Then she went to bed, but not to sleep. What ugly passions were loosed at the lake head she did not know. But on the face of it she could not avoid wondering if Monohan had deliberately set out to cross and harass Jack Fyfe. Because of her? That ...
— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... Brigham, Mr. Stokes, and other members of the museum staff for their help and suggestions, as well as to those scholars of Hawaiian who have patiently answered my questions or lent me valuable material—to Mr. Henry Parker, Mr. Thomas Thrum, Mr. William Rowell, Miss Laura Green, Mr. Stephen Desha, Judge Hazelden of Waiohinu, Mr. Curtis Iaukea, Mr. Edward Lilikalani, and Mrs. Emma Nawahi. Especially am I indebted to Mr. Joseph Emerson, not only for the generous gift of his time but for free access ...
— The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai • Anonymous

... bard, who madly sips His nectar-draughts from folly's flowers, Bright eyes, fair cheeks, and ruby lips, Till music melts to honey showers; Lure him to thrum thy empty lays, While flattery listens to the chimes, Till words themselves grow sick with praise And stop ...
— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry

... at Vienna, or Versailles, He rives his father's auld entails; Or by Madrid he takes the rout, To thrum guitars an' fecht wi' nowt; Or down Italian ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... lived by their wits, and they were not the first to demonstrate that he who would enjoy immortality must first have learned to live by his wits among mortals. It was while he led this irresponsible bachelor life in London that Shakespeare met one Elizabeth Frum, or Thrum, and with this young woman he appears to have fallen in love. The affair did not last very long, but it was fierce while it was on. Anne Hathaway was temporarily forgotten, and Mistress Frum (whose father kept the Bell and Canister) engaged—aye, absorbed—the attentions ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson

... department of the mourning store, and the severed cords of her affections have been spliced and made almost as good as new. Not that I would not have it so; not that I believe the grief of woman to be less real and sincere than man's, though it be enjoyed; not that I would have her thrum a long mournful threnody on the harpstrings of her heart, and waste on the dead, who need them not, affections which, Heaven knows, the living ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various



Words linked to "Thrum" :   strum, drum, go, sound



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