n. 重打, 重击声

vt. 重打, 撞击, 痛打

vi. 重打, 撞击, 痛打

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.


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.


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.