Thrum
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
(2): ( v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
(3): ( v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
(4): ( v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
(5): ( n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
(6): ( n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
(7): ( n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
(8): ( n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
(9): ( v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.
(10): ( v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
(11): ( n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
King James Dictionary [2]
Thrum n. Gr. a fragment to break. The ends of weaver's threads.
1. Any coarse yarn. 2. Thrums, among gardeners, the thread-like internal bushy parts of flowers the stamens.
THRUM, To play coarsely on an instrument with the fingers.
THRUM, To weave to know to twist to fringe.
1. Among seamen, to insert short pieces of rope-yard or spun yard in a sail or mat.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
THRUM . See Spinning and Weaving, §§ 3, 5 .
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
thrum : In Isaiah 38:12 the Revised Version (British and American) reads "He will cut me off from the loom," margin "thrum." "Thrum" is a technical term of weavers, denoting the threads of the warp hanging down in a loom, suiting דּלּה , dallāh , "that which hangs down" ( Song of Solomon 7:5 , "hair"). A misinterpretation of "hanging down" is responsible for the King James' "pining sickness."
