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thrum

noun

  1. short piece or tuft of yarn, especially lengths of warp yarn left unwoven when cloth is cut from a loom
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verb

  1. sound with a monotonous hum
  2. strum the strings of a stringed instrument
  3. make a rythmic sound/motion
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /θɹʌm/

adj

Etymology: 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.

  1. Made of or woven from thrum.

    In Paris, there are scarce two orders of beings more different: for the legislative and executive powers of the shop not resting in the husband, he seldom comes there:—in some dark and dismal room behind, he sits commerce-less, in his thrum nightcap, the same rough son of Nature that Nature left him.

noun

Etymology: Apparently a reduced form of the stem of threepenny/threepence through a sequence such as /ˈθrɛp(ə)n-/ > /ˈθrʊp(ə)m-/ > /ˈθrʊm-/ (> /ˈθɹʌm-/).

  1. A threepenny bit.

verb

Etymology: 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.

  1. 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?

  2. 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

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