▪ I. thrummed, ppl. a.1
(θrʌmd)
Also 6 thrombyed, throm(m)ed, thromde, Sc. thrumit, 6–7 thrumd, thrumbd, thrumb'd, 6–9 thrumbed, 7–8 thrum'd.
[f. thrum n.2 or v.2 + -ed.]
Covered or decked with thrums; having a nap or shaggy surface; also, fringed. Obs. or dial.
| 1535 Bury Wills (Camden) 126, I gyf and bequeth to Alys Mannyng,..iij s. iiij d. and on new thrombyed hate. 1546 Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 237 Ane blak thrumit hat. 1562 W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Simples 16 b, The flowers is like a Blewe or White thrummed hatte. 1578 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 287 Hattes of crymson silk and sylver thrommed and wreythed bandes. 1602 Inv. in Collect. Archæol. (1863) II. 98 One thrummed blanquett xviijd. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 529 The common soldiors used thrumd caps. 1609–10 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 353 Item pro .12. thrummed quishions xliiijs. 1615 Crooke Body of Man 94 So becomming a thrummed rugge to keepe warme the Membranous and vnbloody guts and stomacke vnder it. 1650 Fuller Pisgah iv. vi. 101 A fringe in Hebrew..represented the complication, or conjunction of Gods commandments among themselves,..as the threads in those thrummed fringes were woven together. 1656 Artif. Handsom. 44 Many..by a thrumb'd stocking, a bumbast or bolstered garment,..endeavour to redeem themselves. 1665 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 223 Carpets of silks, silk and gold, and of course thrumd-wool. |
† b. transf. and fig.; in quot. 1607 perh. used for ‘thatched’. Obs.
| 1577 Kendall Flowers Epigr. 17 b, The sun, the starres, the thrunbed thrones with siluer perle and gold. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. viii. 15 The sayde..knoppes do open and put forth a fayre purple, thromde, or veluet floure. 1607 Middleton Michaelm. Term i. ii, Wouldst thou..live in a poor thrummed house i' th' country? |
c. Naut. Of a mat or sail: Having pieces of rope-yarn sewn upon or stuck through it so as to produce a dense shaggy surface: see quot. 1900.
| 1711 W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 162 Paunch, thrum'd Mats. 1798 Capt. Troubridge in Naval Chron. XXIII. 19 With thrummed sails [we] reduced the leak. 1835 Sir J. Ross Narr. 2nd Voy. liii. 686 The men had each a bed place with a canvas bottom, and a thrummed mat for a bed. 1900 F. T. Bullen in Daily News 7 Aug. 3/4 They must..lay loosely spread the collision mat, a mass of rope and thrummed yarn, about fifteen feet square, four inches thick, and weighing about a quarter of a ton. |
▪ II. thrummed, ppl. a.2
see thrum v.3