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thrum | thrummingly |

As a noun thrum

is a thrumming sound; a hum or vibration also fig or thrum can be the ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.

As a verb thrum

is to cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking or thrum can be to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.

As an adverb thrummingly is

with a thrumming sound or vibration.

thrum

English

Alternative forms

* thrumb

Etymology 1

Imitative.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. Also fig.
  • * '>citation

    • Verb

  • To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
    • She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.
  • To make a monotonous drumming noise.
    • to thrum on a table

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) and German Trumm.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
  • (chiefly in 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 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.

    • Verb

  • to furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
  • * Quarles
    • 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

    thrummingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With a thrumming sound or vibration.
  • * 1996 , New York Magazine (volume 29, number 18, 6 May 1996, page 38)
    • thrummingly dashing off a Mozart concerto on the tablecloth.
  • * 2010 , Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You (page 172)
    • Had he just finished running a dozen miles at full speed, he would have felt precisely as he did just now: exhausted, dry-mouthed, and also wholly awake, thrummingly alive, his every vein invigorated by a fresh current of rushing blood.