thump : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: thump	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for thump
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thump n a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) Synonym(s): thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud a heavy blow with the hand v move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: beat, pound, thump] make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door" Synonym(s): thud, thump hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist" Synonym(s): thump, pound, poke
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thump \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thump \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thump \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.