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Thrum

Noun

Définitions

1.NounA thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
2.NounA spicy taste; a tang.
3.VerbTo cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
"She watched as he thrummed the guitar strings absently."
4.VerbTo make a monotonous drumming noise.
"to thrum on a table"
5.NounThe ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
6.NounA fringe made of such threads.
7.NounAny short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
8.NounA threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
9.NounA tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
10.NounA bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
11.NounSmall pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
12.NounA mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
13.NounA shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
14.AdjectiveMade of or woven from thrum.
15.VerbTo furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
16.VerbTo 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"
17.NounA threepenny bit.
18.Noun↑ Hedevind, Bertil (1967), “4. NME Short Vowels”, in The Dialect of Dentdale in the West Riding of Yorkshire (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia; 5)‎, Uppsala: Appelbergs Boktryckeri AB, →OCLC, § 4:43, page 139.
19.Noun↑ John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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