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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.
1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Shram'd, chilled. I am shram'd to death, I am dead with cold. W. 1865Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 5/2 Being ‘shrammed with cold’, as they say in Wiltshire. 1873Gentl. Mag. X. 326 A bitter..wind..‘shramming’ the loungers in Palace Yard. 1892Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Nov. 6/3 In the open yard amidst all the fog, where he should have been ‘shramped’ with cold. 1898Hardy Wessex Poems 207 Half shrammed to death. Hence shrammed ppl. a., numbed.
1874M. E. Herbert Hübner's Ramble iii. ii. (1878) 473 The sun has been pleased to unstiffen our shrammed bodies. |