Obs. rare. [? Related to THRUM sb.1: cf. Flemish ‘drommen = dringhen, premere, pressare, stipare, drom, ghedrom, pressura’ (Kilian).)

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  1.  trans. To compress, condense.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 54. Feþeren he nom mid fingren & fiede on boc-felle … & þa pre boc þrumde to are [i.e., to one].

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  2.  To press or crowd in; to cram.

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1603.  Harsnet, Pop. Impost., 52. The Devills they had cast, did rebound back againe … which by this provision of Thrumming in Devills at the first might … have been avoided.

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