stram

present singular third person strams · participle present stramming · participle past strammed · past strammed

1. To slam; to beat or put down or close violently or noisily.

   ... dawntee stram tha doar zo,[…]

   1892, Sarah Hewett, The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith, page 129

   2 more examples

   ... he strammed the glass down 'pon the planchen, an' roared like Tregeagle. Aw!

   1890, John Tabois Tregellas, Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse, page 15

   ... strammed Bill's legs with his riding crop.

   2019 August 12, Gloria Cook, Kilgarthen: An uplifting 1940s saga set in Cornwall, Canelo, →ISBN

2. To move forcefully; to stream; to walk forcefully.

   ... stramming about like a holiday crowd at the Zoo and in much the same spirit, and roared with laughter when the curtain went up, when the curtain came down, when the gong rang, when Mr. Dickens appeared,[…]

   1927, Bertram Waldrom Matz, The Dickensian, page 51

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   ... strammed by. But I thought maybe you thought I was her, when you come poundin' up the hill; havin' her clo's on, an' her wrop, an' all ; and I've sometimes thought 't when I step out good an' long, an' tilt my head over[…]

   1913, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, Everbreeze, page 213

   ... strammed up and down the Brick Row, shoving each other off the side-walks as they went reeling in and out of saloons and inns, the Eagle, the Swan, in search of the good Virginia brandy with which the proceedings of this legal[…]

   1925, Meade Minnigerode, Lives and Times: Four Informal American Biographies ..., page 128

   ... strammed right across the room and sot down; then she huv her old sun-bunnit onto the floor, and draw'd a long breath, and say she— " Well , I vow I'm tired — ben round a shoppin', and shoppin's no small bisness with me. I don't[…]"

   1988, Zita Dresner, Redressing the balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 78

   '[...] caps, some marched four abreast and others marched or strammed along in single file.' He was used to seeing American parades, the best of which were grand shows of uniformed men skilled in making precision move[s].

   2004 December 15, Ian Radforth, Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 120