shram, v. dial.
(ʃræm)
Also shramp, shramb.
[A parallel form to scram v.1 (see scr-). Cf. shrim, shrimped.]
trans. To benumb or paralyse with cold. Chiefly pass.
| 1787 Grose Prov. Gloss., Shram'd, chilled. I am shram'd to death, I am dead with cold. W. 1865 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 5/2 Being ‘shrammed with cold’, as they say in Wiltshire. 1873 Gentl. Mag. X. 326 A bitter..wind..‘shramming’ the loungers in Palace Yard. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Nov. 6/3 In the open yard amidst all the fog, where he should have been ‘shramped’ with cold. 1898 Hardy Wessex Poems 207 Half shrammed to death. |
Hence shrammed ppl. a., numbed.
| 1874 M. E. Herbert Hübner's Ramble iii. ii. (1878) 473 The sun has been pleased to unstiffen our shrammed bodies. |