thrum

Meanings

Noun

• A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
• A spicy taste; a tang.
• The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
• A fringe made of such threads.
• Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
• A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
• A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
• A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
• Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
• A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
• A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.

Verb

• To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
• To make a monotonous drumming noise.
• To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
• To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.

Adjective

• Made of or woven from thrum.

Origin

• Imitative.
• From Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm and Old Norse thrǫmr.