sb. U.S. colloq. [Perh. suggested by words like STROLL, TRAMP.] A long hard walk. Also Stram v., intr. to take a long walk.
1869. Mrs. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, xliii. (1870), 489. Well, Sam,… take an old woman’s advice, and don’t go stramming off another afternoon. Ibid., xlv. 511. I hed sech a stram this mornin,’ ’n hain’t hed nothin’ but a two-cent roll.
Hence Stramming ppl. a.
1869. Mrs. Stowe, Oldtown Folks, xliii. (1870), 483. Do you think she ever could have made me a great stramming, threshing, scrubbing, floor-cleaning machine, like herself?
