- to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- to produce (notes, a melody, etc.) by such playing: to strum a tune.
- to play on a stringed musical instrument by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- the act of strumming.
- the sound produced by strumming.
- a strainer, as at the inlet of a system of tubing.
- to sound (the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc) with a downward or upward sweep of the thumb or of a plectrum
- to play (chords, a tune, etc) in this way
