stram

Compare German stramm.

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

1. (UK, dialect, especially West Country, obsolete) To beat.
   • 2019 August 12, Gloria Cook, Kilgarthen: An uplifting 1940s saga set in Cornwall, Canelo, →ISBN:

     ... strammed Bill's legs with his riding crop.

2. To slam; to put down or close violently or noisily.
   • 1890, John Tabois Tregellas, Cornish Tales, in Prose and Verse, page 15:

     ... he strammed the glass down 'pon the planchen, an' roared like Tregeagle. Aw!

   • 1892, Sarah Hewett, The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith, page 129:

     ... dawntee stram tha doar zo, […]

3. To spring or recoil with violence.
4. To move forcefully; to stream; to walk forcefully.
   • 1913, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene, Everbreeze, page 213:

     ... 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 […]

   • 1925, Meade Minnigerode, Lives and Times: Four Informal American Biographies ..., page 128:

     ... 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 […]

   • 1927, Bertram Waldrom Matz, The Dickensian, page 51:

     ... 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. Dickens appeared, […]

   • 1988, Zita Dresner, Redressing the balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 78:

     ... strammed right across the room and sot down; then she huv her old sun-bunnit onto the floor, and draw'd a long breath, and say she— " Well , I vow I'm tired — ben round a shoppin', and shoppin's no small bisness with me. I don't […]"

   • 2004 December 15, Ian Radforth, Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 120:

     '[...] caps, some marched four abreast and others marched or strammed along in single file.' He was used to seeing American parades, the best of which were grand shows of uniformed men skilled in making precision move[s].

5. Dialectal form of strum?
   • 1902, Arthur Leslie Salmon, Lyrics and Verses, page 73:

     Tha fiddlin' chaps be gone, the flutes, the stramming bass, […]

• Wright, Joseph (1904), The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 5, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 803

• Smart, S.M.A.R.T., armts., trams, MSTAR, smart, tarms, marts, SMART

From Middle Low German stram.

• IPA^(key): /stram/, [sd̥ʁɑmˀ]

stram (neuter stramt, plural and definite singular attributive stramme)

1. tight, taut
2. strict, stringent
3. stiff, severe, forbidding, acid, sour
4. pungent, acrid

• stramme
• stramhed

• “stram” in Den Danske Ordbog

stram

1. imperative of stramme

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /strɑm/

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• Hyphenation: stram
• Rhymes: -ɑm

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

• stramheid

stram

1. imperative of stramme

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “compare stremy”)

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈstram/

stram m inan

1. (Near Masovian) crossbeam in a sleigh that sits on posts embedded in the runners

• Władysław Matlakowski (1891), “stram”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 369

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stram (comparative stramare, superlative stramast)

1. tense, taut, tight

   ett stramt koppel

   a tight leash

   en stram budget

   a tight budget

   en stram honnör

   a stiff salute

2. (figuratively) strict, curt (of manners or the like)

   en stram min

   an austere look on someone's face

• strama

• brysk (“brusque”)
• spänd (“tense”)

• stram in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• stram in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stram in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• smart, tarms, trams