different between stram vs strim

English

Etymology

Compare German stramm.

Verb

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

1. (Britain, dialect, West Country, obsolete) To dash down; to beat.
2. To spring or recoil with violence.

References

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

Anagrams

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

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stram.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stram/, [sd???m?]

Adjective

stram

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

Inflection

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme

Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /str?m/
• Hyphenation: stram
• Rhymes: -?m

Adjective

stram (comparative strammer, superlative stramst)

1. stiff, rigid, inflexible

Inflection

Derived terms

• stramheid

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stram

1. imperative of stramme

English

Etymology

Back-formed verb from strimmer, which came from a trademark, presumably a blend of string +? trimmer.

Verb

strim (third-person singular simple present strims, present participle strimming, simple past and past participle strimmed)

1. (Britain) To use a strimmer/string trimmer

Anagrams

• TRIMs, Trims, smirt, trims

Westrobothnian

Noun

strim

1. A streak, stripe.

Verb

strim

1. To create streaks, stripes.