thrumming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of thrum

plural thrummings

1. The sound or action of something that thrums.

   The harp itself was a huge gourd, and a most unmusical "shell" it proved to be. It had three strings, the thrummings of which disquieted me on two accounts[…]

   1870, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, volume 46, page 231

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   Those unfortunate and well-educated women made themselves heard from the neighbouring drawing-room, where they were thrumming away, with hard fingers, an elaborate music-piece on the piano-forte, as their mother spoke; and indeed, they were at music, or at backboard, or at geography, or at history, the whole day long.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC