verb. (GROSE).—1.  ‘To play on any instrument stringed with wire’; to strum. Hence THRUMMER.

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  1550.  UDALL, Roister Doister, ii. 1. Anon to our gittern, Thrumpledum, thrumpledum THRUM.

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  2.  (venery).—To possess a woman (HALLIWELL): see STRUM and RIDE.

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  1772.  BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 22.

        Expect … to … keep you safe to THRUM my harlot:
Not I, by JOVE.
    Ibid., 95.
  PARIS, says he, we know you can
The wenches THRUM.

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  Subs. (old).—In pl. = threepence; THREPS (q.v.): see RHINO (B. E. and GROSE). Also THRUMBUSKINS and THRUMMOP.

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  THREAD AND THRUM. See THREAD.

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