Word Meanings - THUMP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: THUMP

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THUMP)

• Pommel
• Beat
• thump
• baste
• thrash
• strike
• cudgel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of THUMP)

• Stroke
• pat
• clap
• tickle

Related words: (words related to THUMP)

• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• THRASH; THRESH
  derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. , Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. , Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of with a flail; to beat off,
• BASTE
  To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the
• TICKLE
  to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you
• TICKLENBURG
  A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• TICKLE-FOOTED
  Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. Beau. & Fl.
• THRASHEL
  An instrument to thrash with; a flail. Halliwell.
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• TICKLENESS
  Unsteadiness. For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer.
• POMMELION
  The cascabel, or hindmost knob, of a cannon.
• THUMPING
  Heavy; large.
• THUMP
  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,
• CUDGELER
  One who beats with a cudgel.
• THRASHING
  a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.
• THRASHER; THRESHER
  A large and voracious shark , remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher,
• THUMPER
  One who, or that which, thumps.
• STRIKER
  1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
• STROKE
  Struck.
• POMMEL
  A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form; as: The knob on the hilt of a sword. Macaulay. The knob or protuberant part of a saddlebow. The top . Chaucer. A knob forming the finial of a turret or pavilion.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BETHUMP
  To beat or thump soundly. Shak.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• LAMBASTE
  To beat severely. Nares.
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• BEPOMMEL
  To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.
• STICKLEBACK
  Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling,
• BANSTICKLE
  A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.
• COUNTERSTROKE
  A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.
• OVERSTRIKE
  To strike beyond.
• BARBASTEL
  A European bat , with hairy lips.