verbTo furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. · To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
adjMade of or woven from thrum.
nounThe ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. · A fringe made of such threads. · Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel. · A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFrom Middle English thrum, throm (> Anglo-French trome), from Old English *þrum (found in tungeþrum (“ligament of the tongue”)) from Proto-Germanic *þrumą. Cognate with German Trumm, Trümmer and Old Norse þrǫmr (“edge, brim”), and more distantly to Latin termen.
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- Inherited-form mentionthrumenm
- Cognate mentiontromefr
- Inherited-form mention*þrumang
- Inherited-form mention*þrumągem-pro
- Cognate mentionTrummde
- Cognate mentionþrǫmrnon · edge, brim
- Cognate mentiontermenla
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