[f. STRUM v. + -ER1.] One who strums.

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1785.  Grose, Dict. Vulgar T., Strummer of wire, a player on any instrument strung with wire.

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1808.  J. Mayne, Siller Gun, IV. xxi. A cat-gut strummer.

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1831.  Macaulay, in Trevelyan, Life, I. iv. 206. Pianoforte-strumming by the first pianoforte-strummer in England.

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1872.  Geo. Eliot, Middlem., IV. xl. Thirty-five pounds a-year, and extra pay for teaching the smallest strummers at the piano.

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1895.  K. Grahame, Golden Age, 89. The pure, absolute quality and nature of each note in itself are only appreciated by the strummer.

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