colloq. [f. next.] The action of ‘flumping’; the heavy dull sound so produced.
1790. Grose, Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2), Flump. A fall.
1832. J. H. Newman, Lett. (1891), I. 288. Then the heavy flump, flump of the huge cloth which is meant to dry the deck as a towel or duster.
1856. The Leisure Hour, V. 430/2. We see nothing for the next three hours but the old yellow paper and wretched type of the old tome, and our own cream-laid slips, upon which we are transferring as much as we want; and we hear nothing but a quiet, soothing, indefinable hum, which tranquillises rather than disturbs, broken now and then by the crackle of paper and the flump of a dictionary on the leather-covered tables.
1891. Mrs. L. Adams, Bonnie Kate, II. vii. 196. Then Miss Libbie sat down with a flump (no other word expresses it), and the bad spirit got the upper hand and held it.
