ghoom

present singular third person ghooms · participle present ghooming · participle past ghoomed · past ghoomed

1. IndiadatedintransitiveTo hunt for animals by stealth in an area where they are likely to be found on the move.

   On off days we went ghooming in the forests and savannahs swarming with game, and picked up various sorts of deer and another leopard.

   1953, Olive Smythies, Tiger Lady: Adventures in the Indian Jungle, page 222

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   Once more we ghoomed. Turning northward this time, it was the eastern portion of the plateau that we faced, rather rougher country than on the side we had lately traversed, […]

   1905, Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd, Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle, page 86

plural ghooms

1. IndiadatedA hunt of this kind.

   A ghoom, too, is often an excellent time for a spear to take on and hunt a pig alone.

   1928, The Hoghunters' Annual, page 67

1. alternativeAlternative form of Ghum, West Bengal.

   The greatest railway altitudes in India are very far from establishing world records. Ghoom Station, on the Darjeeling-Himalayan line, is 7,407 ft. above the sea, and takes 40th place among the world's railway summits.

   1946 March and April, “The Why and The Wherefore: Maximum Railway Altitudes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128