drum, beat, thrum
(verb) make a rhythmic sound; “Rain drummed against the windshield”; “The drums beat all night”
strum, thrum
(verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument); “strum a guitar”
hum, thrum
(verb) sound with a monotonous hum
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thrummed
simple past tense and past participle of thrum
thrummed (not comparable)
(textiles) Made with thrums (leftover warp thread) woven into the fabric.
• drummeth
Source: Wiktionary
Thrum, n. Etym: [OE. thrum, throm; akin to OD. drom, D. dreum, G. trumm, lump, end, fragment, OHG. drum end, Icel. edge, brim, and L. terminus a limit, term. Cf. Term.] [Written also thrumb.]
1. One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
2. Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
4. (Mining)
Definition: A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
5. (Naut.)
Definition: A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. Thrum cap, a knitted cap. Halliwell.
– Thrum hat, a hat made of coarse woolen cloth. Minsheu.
Thrum, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrummed; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrumming.]
1. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. Are we born to thrum caps or pick straw Quarles.
2. (Naut.)
Definition: To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface. Totten.
Thrum, v. i. Etym: [CF. Icel. to rattle, to thunder, and E. drum.]
1. To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
2. Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
Thrum, v. t.
1. To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
2. Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
