strumn.1
/strʌm/, U.S. /strəm/ Obsolete exc. dialect and Nautical.
1. Brewing. An oblong basket of wicker work placed over the bung-hole within the mash-tub to prevent the grains and hops passing through when the liquor is drawn off.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > brewers' utensils
mash-rule1388
strum1394
tunning dish14..
rudder1410
graner1413
mashel1440
mash rudder1454
pig's foot1467
mask rudder1588
tunnel dish1610
paddle-staff1682
mash1688
mashing staff1688
mash-staff1688
oar1735
mashing-stick1741
porcupine1748
thrum1828
rouser1830
tun-pail1833
mashing oar1836
racker1843
attemperator1854
sparger1858
zymoscope1868
nurse1880
parachute1885
pitching machine1940
sparge arm1947
mash-stick1953
mash oar1974
1394–5 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 606 It. pro strom pro le brewhous, iiii d.
1483 Cath. Angl. 369/2 A Strumme, qualus, statrum.
1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments v. 121 Pluck vp your mashing stroame, and let the first liquour runne gently from the mault.
1674 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 47 A Strom: the instrument to keep the malt in the Fat.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 348 Strum, the hose used in brewing &c. to keep the tap free.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 304 Stroom, a wicker malt-strainer, used in brewing.
1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 79 Strum or Strun.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. Strung.
2.
a. Mining. A kind of iron sieve placed round the suction-pipe of a pump to prevent obstruction.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > pump > [noun] > sieve to prevent clogging
strum1849
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 53 Strum, a cover, containing small holes, placed upon the end of a water-pipe at which the water enters, to prevent stones or other rubbish passing into the pipe, whereby the passage of the water might be obstructed.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 245 Strum.
1887 Times 9 Apr. 4/1 Some refuse..choking up the strum of the pipes leading to the pumps.
b. Nautical. (See quots.) Also strum-box, strum-plate.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > filters or strainers for pumps, pipes, etc.
mud-box1860
rose box1872
strum1894
1894 H. Paasch From Keel to Truck (ed. 2) 172/1 Strainer; strum; strum-box, terms applied to perforated plates, wire-clothes or any other objects fitted to allow the entry or exit of water or other fluids, but preventing the passing of any refuse matter.
1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 739/2 Strum plate, a plate fitted in pump suctions, deck scuppers, sea cocks, having a number of small holes in it to allow water to pass, but designed to stop foreign matter that would clog the piping.
1962 A. G. Course Dict. Naut. Terms 192 Strum box, a square metal box with perforated sides fitted round the bottom of a suction pipe in a ship's bilges.
1975 B.S.I. News July 21/2 Strum boxes for ships.
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strumn.2
/strʌm/, U.S. /strəm/ A strumpet, prostitute.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > a prostitute
meretrixOE
whoreOE
soiled dovea1250
common womanc1330
putec1384
bordel womanc1405
putaina1425
brothelc1450
harlot?a1475
public womanc1510
naughty pack?1529
draba1533
cat1535
strange woman1535
stew1552
causey-paikera1555
putanie?1566
drivelling1570
twigger1573
punka1575
hackney1579
customer1583
commodity1591
streetwalker1591
traffic1591
trug1591
hackster1592
polecat1593
stale1593
mermaid1595
medlar1597
occupant1598
Paphian1598
Winchester goose1598
pagan1600
hell-moth1602
aunt1604
moll1604
prostitution1605
community1606
miss1606
night-worm1606
bat1607
croshabell1607
prostitute1607
pug1607
venturer1607
nag1608
curtal1611
jumbler1611
land-frigate1611
walk-street1611
doll-common1612
turn-up1612
barber's chaira1616
commonera1616
public commonera1616
trader1615
venturea1616
stewpot1616
tweak1617
carry-knave1623
prostibule1623
fling-dusta1625
mar-taila1625
night-shadea1625
waistcoateera1625
night trader1630
coolera1632
meretrician1631
painted ladya1637
treadle1638
buttock1641
night-walker1648
mob?1650
lady (also girl, etc.) of the game1651
lady of pleasure1652
trugmullion1654
fallen woman1659
girlc1662
high-flyer1663
fireship1665
quaedama1670
small girl1671
visor-mask1672
vizard-mask1672
bulker1673
marmalade-madam1674
town miss1675
town woman1675
lady of the night1677
mawks1677
fling-stink1679
Whetstone whore1684
man-leech1687
nocturnal1693
hack1699
strum1699
fille de joie1705
market-dame1706
screw1725
girl of (the) town1733
Cytherean1751
street girl1764
monnisher1765
lady of easy virtue1766
woman (also lady) of the town1766
kennel-nymph1771
chicken1782
stargazer1785
loose fish1809
receiver general1811
Cyprian1819
mollya1822
dolly-mop1834
hooker1845
charver1846
tail1846
horse-breaker1861
professional1862
flagger1865
cocodette1867
cocotte1867
queen's woman1871
common prostitute1875
joro1884
geisha1887
horizontal1888
flossy1893
moth1896
girl of the pavement1900
pross1902
prossie1902
pusher1902
split-arse mechanic1903
broad1914
shawl1922
bum1923
quiff1923
hustler1924
lady of the evening1924
prostie1926
working girl1928
prostisciutto1930
maggie1932
brass1934
brass nail1934
mud kicker1934
scupper1935
model1936
poule de luxe1937
pro1937
chromo1941
Tom1941
pan-pan1949
twopenny upright1958
scrubber1959
slack1959
yum-yum girl1960
Suzie Wong1962
mattress1964
jamette1965
ho1966
sex worker1971
pavement princess1976
parlour girl1979
crack whore1990
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Strum Rum-strum,..a handsom Wench, or Strumpet.
1710 C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal i. i. 2 The Whores you left here about ten Months since are Dead with Rottenness, and young Strums supply their Rooms.
1765 Meretriciad (ed. 6) 17 The awful Theatre of late's become A mere receptacle for ev'ry Strum.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Strum, a battered prostitute.
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† strumn.3
slang. Obsolete.
A periwig.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > wig
periwig1529
peruke?a1549
periwinkle1580
flash1699
scandalous1699
strum1699
noddle-casea1704
rug1940
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Strum, a Periwig. Rum-strum, a long Wig.
1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue
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† strumn.4
Obsolete. rare.
(Sense not clear: see quot. 1725).
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Catkin Catkins, the Male Blossoms of Nut-bearing..Trees, &c...; in the Hazel they are long Strums, composed of very small Flowers.
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strumn.5
/strʌm/, U.S. /strəm/, Scottish English /strʌm/ Scottish.
A fit of ill-humour; esp. in to take the strum or strums.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)] > become ill-humoured
to take the fling(sa1568
to take the strum or strums1788
tout1825
to take (the) stunt1837
stunt1877
1788 J. Macaulay Poems Var. Subj. 185 The petty lads hae ta'en the strum, Because we winna let them come.
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xi. 134 Ye're..ay ready to tak the strums, an' ye dinna get a' thing ye're ain wye.
Derivatives
strum v. (intransitive) ‘to be in a pettish humour’ (Jamieson).
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > be ill-humoured [verb (intransitive)]
to have pissed on a nettle1546
mumpc1610
to sell souse1611
sullena1652
sumpha1689
frump1693
hatch1694
sunk1724
mug?c1730
purt1746
sulk1781
to get up or out of bed (on) the wrong side1801
strum1804
boody1857
sull1869
grump1875
to hump the back1889
to have (also pull, throw, etc.) a moody1969
1804 W. Tarras Poems 132 (Jam.) Sinkin wi' care we aften fag, Strummin' about a gill we're lag, Syne drowsy hum.
1804 W. Tarras Poems Gloss. Strumming, glooming, looking sour.
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strumn.6
/strʌm/, U.S. /strəm/ The action of strumming or playing noisily and monotonously on a musical instrument.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [noun] > strumming
thrumminga1625
strumming1775
struma1796
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 770 Who christen'd thus Maria's Lyre divine, The idiot strum of vanity bemused..?
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida III. 143 There were four young ladies who were learning music. We now had our annoyance: it was strum, strum, all day long.
1845 E. Cook Poems 2nd Ser. 26 There's more mirth in the jig and the amateur's strum, When the parchment-spread battledore serves as a drum.
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strumn.7
/strʌm/, U.S. /strəm/, Scottish English /strʌm/ Mining. Scottish.
(See quots.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > fuses, etc., used in blasting
smift1839
snoff1860
straw1860
strum1880
squib1881
1880 J. Nicol Poems & Songs 75 They [sc. the miners] come To their daily task With powder flask And tinder, straw, and strum.
1886 J. Barrowman Gloss. Sc. Mining Terms 65 Strum, safety fuse.
1895 N. Brit. Daily Mail 13 Nov. 5 The explosion..is supposed to have been caused by some careless miner leaving a ball of ‘strum,’ an explosive material used by them in the pits, in the vicinity of the fire.
1911 Daily News 3 Apr. 5 A piece of miners' ‘strum’ for blasting operations was also found.
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strumv.
/strʌm/, U.S. /strəm/ 1. transitive. To play on (a stringed instrument) carelessly or unskilfully; to produce (notes, a tune, etc.) by such playing. Also with out, over.Ash's explanation (quot. 1775) is badly expressed, and perhaps implies a misunderstanding.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (transitive)] > strum
grilla1250
thruma1625
strum1775
twangle1829
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Strum (v.t. a droll word), tuned as a stringed instrument in a clumsy manner.
1784 New Spectator No. xviii. 1 She has received what is called a genteel education, that is, she can strum a tune on a guitar, [etc.].
1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville in Posthumous Wks. (1826) I. 86 Her mynstrells of music..began to blow upon their pipes, and to strum their stringed instruments with most sweet noise.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 30 In due time songs are sung, a guitar is strummed.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iv. 39 Laura..had been strumming her music lesson for hours before.
1894 H. Caine Manxman ii. 53 He was sitting at the piano strumming a music-hall ditty.
1896 A. Morrison Adv. Martin Hewitt 3rd Ser. 10 I turned to my little pianette and strummed over the notes, making my own time.
1896 A. Morrison Adv. Martin Hewitt 3rd Ser. 28 He had got musicians to strum out the notes on all sorts of instruments.
1906 Temple Bar Jan. 76 The mate..sits on the booby hatch, and strums his banjo to the stars.
2. intransitive. To play carelessly or unskilfully on a stringed instrument. Also with away, on. Said also of an instrument: To sound when strummed upon.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > play stringed instrument [verb (intransitive)] > strum
twangle1558
thrum1592
twang1594
thrumble1685
strum1785
tum-tum1866
rum-strum1872
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Strum,..to play badly on the harpsichord, or any other stringed instrument.
1794 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 728 Here Vanity strums on her idiot lyre.
1840 Lady C. M. C. Bury Hist. Flirt xii Thelwal would strum away on the guitar.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur viii. lxxv Fifes, viols, trumpets braying, screaming, strumming, Flatter his ears, and compliment his coming.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 186 You have been fouling that redoubtable Harp-player, twenty years, with what effect? Still he strums on, strums ever cheerily.
1914 J. L. Paton J. B. Paton xii. 202 Physical exercises..went with more go when the teacher..strummed on the piano by way of accompaniment.
3. quasi-transitive with adverbial complement.
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1787 ‘P. Pindar’ Ode upon Ode (ed. 7) 41 [He] to his tent majestic strode to strum, And scrape his anger out on tweedle-dum.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 39 To be stuck down to an old spinet to strum my father to sleep after a fox-chase.
1847 A. Brontë Agnes Grey vii. 117 The short half-hour of practising was horribly strummed through.
Derivatives
strummed adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > strummed or struck
struck1627
stricken1873
strummed1881
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing stringed instrument > [adjective] > strummed
thrummed1876
strummed1881
1881 H. James Portrait of Lady xx, in Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 270/2 Don't question your conscience so much—it will get out of tune, like a strummed piano.
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