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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'

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"Thump" Quotes from Famous Books

... than to make such a pilgrimage in the old, middle-age fashion; to suffer hunger, storm, cold, heat—all that can affect the body of flesh. If we receive hard usage, so much the better will it be for us. Why thump one's own flesh here? Let it be done for us by others, our soul, meanwhile, looking at higher objects. . . . I feel that I have the stuff to do it in me. I would love to work and beg my way to Rome if it cost me ten or fifteen years ...

— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott

... had failed, but Ned took courage. It must be nearly six now, for hardly any light was coming in through the hole, and mamma would soon open the window to close the blinds. How still he kept, listening for every sound! and at last his heart gave a thump. ...

— Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... trace chains and the pounding of hoofs mingling with hoarse commands as the artillery of the Russians wheeled out of column to position in battery, the ring of hastily-opened breechblocks, the hollow thump of the blocks closing and the shrill notes of a silvery whistle. Then ...

— The Boy Allies with the Cossacks - Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians • Clair W. Hayes

... impetus which was only checked by his coming in collision with a plaster-of-Paris pedestal, on which stood a bust of General Zachary Taylor; his head penetrated the column, and the bust came down on his back with a thump that nearly knocked the breath out of his body. His eyeglasses were shattered, his soul rent, and his shirt bosom torn asunder. The unfortunate youth gathered himself up and retreated to an anteroom, where he rearranged his disordered clothing; but was not seen again, having disappeared ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... beneath a black object was for an instant distinguishable and the next moment a crash was heard. The spritsailyard rattled, and broke off sharp'at the point where it crossed the bowsprit; and a heavy smashing thump against our bows told, in fearful language, that we had run her down. Three of the men and a boy hung on by the rigging of the bowsprit, and were brought safely on board; but two poor fellows perished with their boat. ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

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