thrum

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Music To play (a stringed instrument) idly or monotonously: thrummed a guitar.
2. v. To speak, repeat, or recite in a monotonous tone of voice; drone.
3. v. Music To strum idly on a stringed instrument.
4. v. To speak in a monotonous tone of voice; drone.
5. n. A thrumming sound.
6. n. The fringe of warp threads left on a loom after the cloth has been cut off.
7. n. One of these threads.
8. n. A loose end, fringe, or tuft of thread.
9. n. Nautical Short bits of rope yarn inserted into canvas to roughen the surface.
10. v. To cover or trim with thrums; fringe.
11. v. Nautical To sew thrums in (canvas).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The character of being thrumeyed.
2. n. The fringe of threads which remains attached to a loom when the web has been cut off; also, one of such threads.
3. n. Hence Any loose thread, or a mass or tuft of loose filamentous material.
4. n. A tuft, or a collection of tufts; a fringe or tassel.
5. n. pl. Naut., short bits of rope-yarn used for sewing on mats.
6. n. plural Coarse yarn; waste yarn.
7. n. A ragged rocky headland swept by the sea. Also thrum-cap.
8. Made of thrums, or waste yarn: as, a thrum cap or hat.
9. To make of or cover with thrums, or appendages resembling thrums.
10. To thatch.
11. To play with the fingers on a stringed instrument in an idle, listless, monotonous, or unskilful manner; strum.
12. To drum or tap idly on something with the fingers.
13. To play idly or unskilfully on (some stringed instrument) with the fingers; sound by fingering in a listless or monotonous manner.
14. To drum or tap idly on.
15. n. A monotonous sound, as from the careless or unskilful fingering of a guitar or harp.
16. n. A troop.
17. n. A heap.

Wiktionary

1. n. A thrumming sound
2. n. The fringe of threads of warp left after cloth has been cut off of a loom
3. n. Any short piece of yarn or rope
4. v. To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
2. n. Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
3. n. (Bot.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
4. n. (Mining) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
5. n. (Naut.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
6. v. To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
7. v. (Naut.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
8. v. To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
9. v. Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise.
10. v. To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
11. v. Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a thrumming sound
2. v. sound with a monotonous hum
3. v. sound the strings of (a string instrument)
4. v. make a rhythmic sound