Usually means: Vibrate, sound, or repeated strumming.
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  1. thrum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thrum: Merriam-Webster
  3. thrum, thrum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thrum, thrum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thrum: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thrum: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thrum, thrum: Wordnik
  8. thrum: Wiktionary
  9. thrum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thrum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thrum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thrum: Dictionary.com
  13. thrum (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Thrum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Thrum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. thrum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. thrum: Rhymezone
  18. Thrum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. thrum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. thrum: FreeDictionary.org
  21. thrum: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. thrum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. thrum: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. thrum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thrum: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thrum, thrum, thrum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. thrum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See thrummed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
noun:  (figurative) A spicy taste; a tang.
verb:  To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
verb:  To make a monotonous drumming noise.
noun:  The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A fringe made of such threads.
noun:  Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
noun:  (botany) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
noun:  (botany) A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
noun:  (anatomy) A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
noun:  (nautical, chiefly in the plural) Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
noun:  (nautical) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
noun:  (mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
adjective:  Made of or woven from thrum.
verb:  To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
verb:  (nautical) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.

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