| 释义 |
▪ I. stroam, strome, v. Obs. exc. dial.|strəʊm|
[? Formed after stroll and roam.]
intr. To walk with long strides. Also to wander about idly.
1796F. 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. 1817M. 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. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Strome, to walk with long strides. 1840Spurdens Suppl. to Forby s.v., To ‘stroam about’: to wander idly without an object. 1878S. H. Miller & Skertchly Fenland iii. 89 In Cambridgeshire we find the words—cloof, the hoof,..stroming, taking long strides.
transf.1909A. 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. |