thrum
noun
- short piece or tuft of yarn, especially lengths of warp yarn left unwoven when cloth is cut from a loom
verb
- sound with a monotonous hum
- strum the strings of a stringed instrument
- make a rythmic sound/motion
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.
- 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-/).
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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”