Definition of "thrums" [thrums]

• Plural form of thrum. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thrum. (verb)

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• "Ventriloquist, the heart throws its voice to the wind, thrums from the burr oaks and lichen covered stones."
• "The thrums were a perquisite of my own, which I niffered with the gundy-wife for Gibraltar-rock, cut-throat, gib, or bull's-eyes."
• "And they have that trademarked Ron Goulart writing style--who else would continually refer to Vampi as "high-breasted," or note that her the strrips of her costume made of satin in the books "thrums" tautly against her body?"