Definition of Thrummer

1. one that thrums [n -S] - See also: thrums

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrummer

thrown down
thrown up
throws
throws away
throws down
throws up
throwster
throwsters
throwup
thru
thrue
thruly
thrum
thrum-eyed
thrummed
thrummer (current term)
thrummers
thrummier
thrummiest
thrumming
thrummingly
thrummy
thrums
thrumwort
thrung
thruout
thruppence
thruppences
thruput
thruputs

Literary usage of Thrummer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Rizzio, doubtless, was a fiddler, thrummer on the lute, or other maker of pleasant noises ; but he was, over and above, a true sixteenth century Italian ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"... breeches 1 What though the splendour of my lines To SWINBURNE'Sheight ne'er reaches? The theme, if not the thrummer, shines ; That theme ..."

3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1843)
"The person thus employed was evidently no common thrummer. His performance was that of one who had perfected himself on the instrument, in the land to which ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1864)
"Rizzio, doubtless, was a fiddler, thrummer on the lute, or other maker of pleasant noises; but he was, over and above, a true sixteenth century Italian ..."

5. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"Well, but Sir William, let me tell you, you know nothing of the matter; this man is a music- master; a thrummer of wire, and a scraper of catgut, ..."

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