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▪ I. tum, v.1 north. dial.|tʌm|
[Origin not ascertained.]
trans. To card (wool), esp. for the first time, in preparation for the finer cards. Also, to mix wool of different colours. Hence ˈtumming vbl. n., the action or process of doing this; concr. coarse cardings of wool; also ˈtummer: see quots. 1877, 1884.
1615Markham Eng. Housew. iii. 88 After your wooll is oild..you shall then tumme it; which is, you shall..card it ouer againe vpon your Stocke cards: And then those cardings which you strike off are called tummings. Ibid., After your Wooll is thus mixed oiled and tummed, you shall then Spinne it vpon great Wooll wheeles. 1691Ray N.C. Words 77 To Tum Wooll; to mix Wool of divers colours. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray Gloss. (E.D.S.) Tooming, wool taken off the cards. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Tum, v., to card wool roughly, to prepare it for the finer cards. 1822Lonsdale Mag. Jan. 13/1, I thought my father had a neater method of mixing the black and white wool, in tumming. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 494/2 The carding engines [in cotton-manufacture] are often made with two main cylinders and a connecting cylinder called the tummer. 1878–81Cumberld. Gloss., Tummins, rough cardings of wool. 1879Ibid. Suppl., Toom, tum, to tease wool. 1884R. Marsden Cotton Spinning (1891) 129 In these cards there are two large cylinders, the first being stripped by a doffer cylinder called a slow tummer.
▪ II. tum, n.1 and v.2|tʌm|
[Echoic; more usual in reduplicated form tum-tum.]
An imitation of the sound made by plucking a tense string, as in a musical instrument, or by striking a drum, or the like. also as vb. trans. and intr. to produce this sound; hence ˈtumming vbl. n.
c1830Negro Song, Don't ye 'ear de banjo tum? 1882Elwes tr. Capello & Ivens' Benguella to Yacca II. iv. 77 The echoes..repeating the tumming of the drums. 1911Daily News 23 June 3 The monotonous tum to which the dancers keep time for weeks together.
▪ III. tum, n.2 joc.|tʌm|
Short for tummy. Cf. tum-tum n.4
1869W. S. Gilbert Bab Ballads 121 They can reduce a bulging tum To measures fair By taking air And exercise in plenty. 1890A. James Diary 18 July (1965) 129 That dissipated organ known in the family as ‘Alice's tum’. 1937G. Frankau More of Us xiv. 153 Chilled all those suns for which we oiled the raw tum Or boracized the blistering shoulder blade. 1977Time 14 Feb. 33/2 To re-establish old wisdom and simple certitudes: hot chestnuts in the hand, calories in the tum.
▪ IV. tum
obs. form of toom a. |