thrum
thrum is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
- noun. Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
- noun. A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- noun. A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- noun. A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- transitive verb. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
- intransitive verb. Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
- transitive verb. To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
- transitive verb. Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
- noun. a thrumming sound
"he could hear the thrum of a banjo"
- verb. make a rhythmic sound
"Rain drummed against the windshield"
"The drums beat all night"
- verb. sound the strings of (a string instrument)
"strum a guitar"
- verb. sound with a monotonous hum
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in thrum:
Common word forms
thrums, thrummed, thrummer, thrumming
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