Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also thrum one’s jacket) to have sexual intercourse.

1550		Udall Ralph Roister Doister II i: Anon to our gittern, thrumpledum, thrumpledum, thrum!
1611		Florio Queen Anna’s New World of Words n.p.: Accencire una donna, to thrum a wench.
1619		Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) V i: I’ll tumble with ye straight, wench [...] how I shall thrum ye?
c.1621		Middleton Women Beware Women III iii: I warrant you, guardianier, I’ll not stand all day thrumming, / But quickly shoot my bolt at your next coming.
1656		in Ebsworth Choyce Drollery (1876) 71: He that thrumms a wench upon a brass pot, / The child may prove a Tinker.
1683		‘Advice’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 118: I hear Phil Kirke does thrum, sir, Your brother’s lady’s bum, sir.
1741		W. Kennett ‘Armour’ in Potent Ally 7: You cautious stay awhile, till fitly Arm’d [...] so may you thrum / Th’ exstatic Harlot.
1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 191: [note] There was one Anchises [...] that (as old stories say) us’d to thrum her jacket, ?neas was the produce of their leisure hours.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 3: But I, d’ye see, am not inclin’d / To have her thrum’d against her mind.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 138: Whether they’d thrum’d the maids of Troy, / When Adam was a little boy. [Ibid.] I 327: She ne’er was thrum’d so in her life.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 250: Tarabuster. to copulate; ‘to thrum.’.

2. to thrash.

1604

Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 III i: Harke in your eare sir, y’are a flat foole, an Asse, a gull and Ile thrum you.