Thrum

.—In manchester, Norwich and in other manufacturing towns, it formerly meant a loom’s work, curiously done up, and ready for the weaver, but the word is now nearly obsolete, and the mean­ing of it only known by obscure and imperfect tradition. And where the busy weaver, in days of yore, plied at his cheerful labout, the no less busy little spider now weaves its silken veil of oblivion!