English edit

Etymology edit

British dialect strome (to walk with long strides).

Verb edit

stroam (third-person singular simple present stroams, present participle stroaming, simple past and past participle stroamed)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To wander about idly and vacantly.
  2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To take long strides in walking.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stroam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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