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Definition of Stramash
1. v. t. To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy.
2. n. A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight.
Definition of Stramash
1. an uproar [n -ES] - See also: uproar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stramash
Literary usage of Stramash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Me and Myn by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1907)
"I told him that I was under suspicion, and Mrs stramash told him that she would
have no one in ... I said that now I would not stay if Mrs stramash paid me, ..."
2. A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: With Their Etymology, and by John Trotter Brockett (1829)
"He made a sad stramash among the pots and pans." Applied, metaphorically, to a
violent party contest, or to the disorder arising in a popular tumult or ..."
3. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"Add; perly strack, S. " Others think she will raise sick a stramash, that •he
will send the whole government in to the air, ..."
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