ppl. a.1 Also 6 thrombyed, throm(m)ed, thromde, Sc. thrumit, 6–7 thrumd, thrumbd, thrumb’d, 6–9 thrumbed, 7–8 thrum’d. [f. THRUM sb.2 or v.2 + -ED.]
Covered or decked with thrums; having a nap or shaggy surface; also, fringed. Obs. or dial.
1535. Bury Wills (Camden), 126. I gyf and bequeth to Alys Mannyng,… iij s. iiij d. and on new thrombyed hate.
1546. Aberdeen Regr. (1844), I. 237. Ane blak thrumit hat.
1562. Bulleyn, Bulwark, Bk. Simples, 16 b. The flowers is like a Blewe or White thrummed hatte.
1578. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 287. Hattes of crymson silk and sylver thrommed and wreythed bandes.
1602. Inv., in Collect. Archæol. (1863), II. 98. One thrummed blanquett xviijd.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 529. The common soldiors used thrumd caps.
1609–10. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), III. 353. Item pro .12. thrummed quishions xliiijs.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 94. So becomming a thrummed rugge to keepe warme the Membranous and vnbloody guts and stomacke vnder it.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, IV. vi. 101. A fringe in Hebrew … represented the complication, or conjunction of Gods commandments among themselves,… as the threads in those thrummed fringes were woven together.
1656. Artif. Handsom., 44. Many … by a thrumb’d stocking, a bumbast or bolstered garment,… endeavour to redeem themselves.
1665. Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 223. Carpets of silks, silk and gold, and of course thrumd-wool.
† b. transf. and fig.; in quot. 1607 perh. used for ‘thatched.’ Obs.
1577. Kendall, Flowers Epigr., 17 b. The sun, the starres, the thrunbed thrones with siluer perle and gold.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, I. viii. 15. The sayde … knoppes do open and put forth a fayre purple, thromde, or veluet floure.
1607. Middleton, Michaelm. Term, I. ii. Wouldst thou … live in a poor thrummed house i’ th’ country?
c. Naut. Of a mat or sail: Having pieces of rope-yarn sewn upon or stuck through it so as to produce a dense shaggy surface: see quot. 1900.
1712. W. Sutherland, Shipbuild. Assist., 162. Paunch, thrum’d Mats.
1798. Capt. Troubridge, in Naval Chron., XXIII. 19. With thrummed sails [we] reduced the leak.
1835. Sir J. Ross, Narr. 2nd Voy., liii. 686. The men had each a bed place with a canvas bottom, and a thrummed mat for a bed.
1900. F. T. Bullen, in Daily News, 7 Aug., 3/4. They must … lay loosely spread the collision mat, a mass of rope and thrummed yarn, about fifteen feet square, four inches thick, and weighing about a quarter of a ton.
Thrummed ppl. a.2: see THRUM v.3
