▪ I. stroam, strome, v. Obs. exc. dial.
(strəʊm)
[? Formed after stroll and roam.]
intr. To walk with long strides. Also to wander about idly.
| 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. 174 A young Ensign..stroamed into the ball-room, with the most visible marks of his unfitness for appearing in it. Ibid. II. 195 He..stroamed up and down the room, biting his knuckles. 1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond xiii. T. & N. 1848 IX. 330 One morning our young hero rose early,..and he walked out, or, more properly, he rambled, or he strolled, or stroamed out. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Strome, to walk with long strides. 1840 Spurdens Suppl. to Forby s.v., To ‘stroam about’: to wander idly without an object. 1878 S. H. Miller & Skertchly Fenland iii. 89 In Cambridgeshire we find the words—cloof, the hoof,..stroming, taking long strides. |
| transf. 1909 A. H. Patterson Man & Nat. Tidal Waters i. 21 What can lick a Norfolk wherry either for lines or the way she lays afore the wind stroming along. |
▪ II. stroam
variant of strum.