2. Verb. (third-person singular of thrum) ¹
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Definition of Thrums
1. thrum [v] - See also: thrum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrums
Literary usage of Thrums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Years afterward it was said in thrums that Sam'l had treated Bell badly, ...
JESS LEFT ALONE From 'A Window in thrums' THERE may be a few who care to know ..."
2. Methodist Magazine (1900)
"A DAY IN thrums, . ... thrums, though when you reach Forfar, the train soon sweeps
you round the curve of some seven miles and lands you at the foot of '' a ..."
3. The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, Sidney Herbert Sime (1897)
"'Cos they wouldn't not have it in thrums,' replied Tommy. ... Her pride could
not support that the thrums folk should know what a mean failure her marriage ..."
4. The Little Minister by James Matthew Barrie (1898)
"CHAPTER XXVII FIRST JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO thrums DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
J_ J_ once, but the Egyptian was only with me in the body, and she did not ..."
5. The Little Minister by James Matthew Barrie (1898)
"CHAPTER XXVII FIRST JOURNEY OF THE DOMINIE TO thrums DURING THE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS
J~l once, but the Egyptian was only with me in the body, and she did not ..."
6. The Land of Heather by Clifton Johnson (1903)
"... VI thrums IN nearly all the novels with which Mr.JMBarrie has charmed the
readers of two hemispheres, thrums is the home of the characters introduced, ..."
7. Sentimental Tommy: The Story of His Boyhood by James Matthew Barrie (1896)
"But every effort to discover why he was in such a fidget failed, because the
spy-glasses were never levelled at the thrums den. ..."
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