1874, The Church Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine of Church Literature, page 184:
Lord Granville at once dismounted, and, seeing no signs of life, despatched the goom for assistance to Abinger Hall, which was the nearest house.
??? something used to move a boat along a riveredit
1881, India Seventy Years Ago, page 153 and page 156:
Each of us, therefore, chose a pinnace, which is a decked boat, divided into two rooms, and, though well furnished with canvas, depends chiefly for progression upon the labours of the dandies or boatmen, who, carrying on their shoulders a wooden staff connected with a thin rope, which is again attached to the goom, they toil the live-long day under a vertical sun to obtain, by the severest labours, a scanty livelihood.
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The rapid rolling of the river, and the continued interruptions to the towing on the bank, the necessity of passing the goom over boats attached to the shore, […]
1868, Life in the Argentine Republic in the days of the tyrants, page 60:
In Africa, at the present day, there exists the same struggle between civilization and barbarism; the goom and the montonera are distinguished by the same characters, the same spirit, the same undisciplined strategy.
1951, Western Construction, volume 26, page 59:
Better aggregates are on the market even if the mechanical equipment does wash all the "goom" and too much of the "powder" out of the sand.
(Can we date this quote?), Virginia Woolf's diary, quoted in Women and Literature: Discovery and Exploration→ISBN, page 104:
