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Definition of Slooms
1. sloom [v] - See also: sloom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slooms
Literary usage of Slooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manufacture of Iron, in All Its Various Branches: Including a by Frederick Overman (1854)
"The latter flows into the bottom of the forge fire, in which slooms are reheated,
and is then converted into bar iron by the j method adopted to convert ..."
2. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"... That sleeps at hame in Heaven ; The heart that beats in tune wi' heart, Amang
the broom sae blythely, Can ne'er compare wi' yon sweet heart That slooms ..."
3. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"... The bonniest bairn o' seven, Can ne'er compare wi' baby Bell That sleeps at
hame in Heaven ; The heart that beats in tune wi' heart, That slooms ..."
4. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"Single slooms in daises.—The best were as follows :—Bizarre breeders : Mr. S.
Sharpley, with John Brook ; 2nd, Mr. J. Woolfenden, with Excelsior ; 3rd, ..."
5. A New History of Aberdeenshire by Alexander Smith (1875)
"Some says that it was a rotten spar that broke, and let the rope run off; but
there were slooms (suspicions), that it had been meddled with ; God knows, ..."
6. The British Metropolis in 1851: A Classified Guide to London, So Arranged as (1851)
"Instituted by the Society for Improving the Condition of the Labour- ng Classes.
George-street, slooms- 'lury, for 104 single men. ..."
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