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.
Swift.
Thump , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thumped (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
Shak.
Thump (?), n. [Probably of imitative origin; perhaps influenced by dump, v.t.]
1. 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.
Wordsworth.
With heavy
thump, a lifeless lump,
They dropped down, one by one.
Coleridge.
2. 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.
Tatler.
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