The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stroam \Stroam\, v. i. [Prov. E. strome to walk with long strides.]
To wander about idly and vacantly. [Obs.]
To take long strides in walking. [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context UK dialect obsolete English) To wander about idly and vacantly. 2 (context UK dialect obsolete English) To take long strides in walking.
Usage examples of "stroam".
Ben Lane, now in the Canadian wilderness, has something which a sinister individual, who calls himself Stroam, wants.
There was no time to await Johnny and Long Tom--he would have to seize Mahal and Stroam himself.
The tones would have to be altered very little to resemble the squeaky voice of Stroam, as it had come over the dictograph.
Hearing Long Tom and Johnny in the basement, he had started upstairs to warn Stroam and the others.
Lane apparently knew that Stroam had headed for New York to contact Mahal.
No doubt Stroam fled when Mahal was trapped, taking the torch, and whatever they secured from the mail box--letters or telegrams.
Stonefelt had put men to searching for Stroam, but they had found no sign of such an individual.
Stroam telling a henchman in New York City, a henchman whom Stroam later killed.
Orkborne, a door she had just passed was flung open, and she saw young Halder, whose licentious insolence had so much alarmed her in the bathing-house, stroam out, yawning, stretching, and swearing unmeaningly, but most disgustingly, at every step.