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stram

stram verb: to slam; to beat or put down or close violently or noisily.

Verb

stram (third-person singular simple present strams, present participle stramming, simple past and past participle strammed)

  1. To slam; to beat or put down or close violently or noisily.
    • ... he strammed the glass down 'pon the planchen, an' roared like Tregeagle. Aw!1890, John Tabois Tregellas, Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse, page 15
    • ... dawntee stram tha doar zo,[…]1892, Sarah Hewett, The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith, page 129
  2. To move forcefully; to stream; to walk forcefully.
    • ... strammed by. But I thought maybe you thought I was her, when you come poundin' up the hill; havin' her clo's on, an' her wrop, an' all ; and I've sometimes thought 't when I step out good an' long, an' tilt my head over[…]1913, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, Everbreeze, page 213
    • ... strammed up and down the Brick Row, shoving each other off the side-walks as they went reeling in and out of saloons and inns, the Eagle, the Swan, in search of the good Virginia brandy with which the proceedings of this legal[…]1925, Meade Minnigerode, Lives and Times: Four Informal American Biographies ..., page 128

Examples of stram in a sentence

  • ... strammed Bill's legs with his riding crop.2019 August 12, Gloria Cook, Kilgarthen: An uplifting 1940s saga set in Cornwall, Canelo, →ISBN:
  • ... stramming about like a holiday crowd at the Zoo and in much the same spirit, and roared with laughter when the curtain went up, when the curtain came down, when the gong rang, when Mr.1927, Bertram Waldrom Matz, The Dickensian, page 51:

Forms of stram

third-person singular presentstrams
present participlestramming
past participlestrammed
paststrammed

Origin of stram

Compare German stramm.

Words formed from stram

Questions about stram

What does stram mean?
Stram means to slam; to beat or put down or close violently or noisily.
How do you use stram in a sentence?
... strammed Bill's legs with his riding crop.
What part of speech is stram?
Stram is a verb.
What is the past tense of stram?
The past tense of stram is strammed.

Words near stram in the dictionary

  1. Straleys
  2. Stralia
  3. strallies
  4. strally
  5. Stralsund
  6. stram
  7. stramash
  8. stramashed
  9. stramashes
  10. stramashing
  11. stramazon

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