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- noun Plural form of
thrum . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
thrum .
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Examples
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Ventriloquist, the heart throws its voice to the wind, thrums from the burr oaks and lichen covered stones.
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The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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And they have that trademarked Ron Goulart writing style--who else would continually refer to Vampi as "high-breasted," or note that her the strrips of her costume made of satin in the books "thrums" tautly against her body?
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Towels, table cloths and shirts were made in the same slow way, and even the "best-fixed" families were glad to use "thrums" for towels and soft soap
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[Page 199] people who educated her had no coherence or consistence of character, and, with all her strength, she wanted something able to bind her together; she must weave up her 'thrums' herself, and she might make them into cloth-of-gold!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892
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Suttie thrums the heartstrings like a flamenco guitarist.
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Embers (the darker skein) is wool (unknown type) and red recycled sari fibers (cut from the thrums of Tibetan looms), with some sparkly "firestar" fibers in red and gold added in.
Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009
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His body thrums with tension, taut as a drawn bow, muscles spring-coiled.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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"Teeming with the rich period details that make historical fiction so rewarding, Gullands dynamic and nuanced portrait of Louis notorious reign thrums with page-turning expediency and deliciously seductive machinations."
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