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noun

Thump n.

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. "The distant forge's swinging thump profound." "With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one."

A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall. "The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock."

verb

Thump v. t. (past & past part. thumped; pres. part. thumping) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound. "These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped."

Thump v. i. To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound. "A watchman at midnight thumps with his pole."

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Etymology of 'Thump'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thump" Quotes from Famous Books

... one for many a weary day, and that if she had to crawl up the mountain on her bare knees, she would go to see the parson's witch burned; that she had reckoned upon it for so long, and if he did not let her go, she would give him a thump on the chaps, etc. ...

— The Amber Witch • Wilhelm Meinhold

... The "thump" and the other exclamation did no harm to the Hail Columbia, but the fat old gentleman in the tub of a pleasure-boat that had bumped ...

— Harper's Young People, September 14, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... gave's breast a thump, And stretching out his hand, - If you will pull me up, he cried, I'll try if I ...

— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... you by easy ship, shore-going ship. No vatch, no heavy veather, good times, ja. You thump mine roonar, you take his voomans, so—you take his yob. Ja? You ship ...

— The Blood Ship • Norman Springer

... back into the wings, and the shrieking and thumping and whistling out in front just went on—and on—and on—and on. Um! I just listened and loved it—every thump of it. And I stood there like a demure little kitten; or more like Mag Monahan after she'd had a good licking, and was good and quiet. And I never so much as budged ...

— In the Bishop's Carriage • Miriam Michelson

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