Definition of "thrum" in English

noun

1. A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.

2. (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.

verb

1. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.

   • She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently.

2. To make a monotonous drumming noise.

   • to thrum on a table

noun

1. The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.

2. (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.

3. Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.

4. (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

5. (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.

6. (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.

7. (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.

8. (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.

9. (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

adjective

1. Made of or woven from thrum.

verb

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. (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

noun

1. (obsolete, slang) A threepenny bit.