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单词 stram
释义

stramv.

/stram/
Etymology: Perhaps suggested by words like stroll v., tramp v.1
U.S. colloquial and dialect (now Obsolete or rare).
intransitive. To stretch out the limbs; to walk in a flourishing manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > flourishingly
stram1792
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch oneself or be stretched [verb (intransitive)] > specific part of body
astretchc1000
reachOE
stretcha1375
to make a long neck1490
stram1792
crane1799
society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > for exercise or recreation > hike or ramble
ramble1711
hike1867
stram1869
1792 F. Burney Jrnl. 27 June in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 209 He bowed without looking at her, & she strammed away, still, however, keeping in sight.
a1852 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers (1856) xxv. 306 She..strammed right across the room and sot down.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 184 Stram, v.n. to walk with a rude, noisy step.
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks (1870) xliii. 489 Well, Sam,..take an old woman's advice, and don't go stramming off another afternoon.
1890 Dial. Notes 1 i. 19 Stram, flourish the limbs. It is used in two ways: (1) ‘to go stramming along the street’, ‘to stram about the room’, that is, stride with ado and bustle; and (2) ‘to stram about in bed’ = flounder, kick about.
1927 Amer. Speech 3 138 A young child crying and displaying temper was said to ‘kick and stram’. This word stram means in older English ‘to recoil with violence and noise’, which gives a vivid picture of a child in a tantrum.

Derivatives

stram n. a long, hard walk.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > walking laboriously or aimlessly > an act of
march1692
tramp1787
trudge1835
trampoose1840
traipse1862
stram1869
ploda1879
foot-slog1900
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks (1870) xlv. 511 I hed sech a stram this mornin', 'n hain't hed nothin' but a two-cent roll.
ˈstramming adj.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [adjective] > going on foot > hiking or rambling
tramping1863
stramming1869
1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks (1870) xliii. 483 Do you think she ever could have made me a great stramming, threshing, scrubbing, floor-cleaning machine, like herself?
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