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Strum

verb

(past & past part. strummed; pres. part. strumming)

Sound the strings of (a string instrument). Synonym: thrum.

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... hats and feathers; for French wines and French fashions commonly keep pace with paper money. How can I hope that even Sleepy Hollow can escape the general inundation? In a little while, I fear the slumber of ages will be at end—the strum of the piano will succeed to the hum of the spinning-wheel; the trill of the Italian opera to the nasal quaver of Ichabod Crane; and the antiquarian visitor to the Hollow, in the petulance of his disappointment, may pronounce ...

— Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies • Washington Irving

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... which I never had any desire. Still my own wishes were not allowed to weigh in the matter, for there came to me tutors, aged men who might have found better employment, to instruct me in the use of the lute, and on this instrument I must learn to strum. Others there were also, who taught me letters, poetry, and art, as they were understood among the Aztecs, and all this knowledge I was glad of. Still I remembered the words of the preacher which tell ...

— Montezuma's Daughter • H. Rider Haggard

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Words linked to "Strum" : thrum, sound