stroamstromev.
/strəʊm/ Obsolete exc. dialect.in extended use.1909 A. H. Patterson Man & Nature Tidal Waters i. 21 What can lick a Norfolk wherry either for lines or the way she lays afore the wind stroming along.
intransitive. To walk with long strides. Also to wander about idly.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > with long steps
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1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. ii. 174 A young Ensign..stroamed into the ball-room, with the most visible marks of his unfitness for appearing in it.
1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. x. 195 He..stroamed up and down the room, biting his knuckles.
1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond II. xiii. 266 One morning our young hero rose early..and he walked out, or, more properly, he rambled, or he strolled, or..stroamed out.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Strome, to walk with long strides.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 49 To ‘stroam about’: to wander idly without an object.
1878 S. H. Miller & S. B. J. Skertchly Fenland iii. 89 In Cambridgeshire we find the words—cloof, the hoof,..stroming, taking long strides.
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