Definition of Tooming

1. toom [v] - See also: toom

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tooming

tools of choice
tools of ignorance
toolset
toolsets
toolshed
toolsheds
toolsmith
toolsmithing
toolsmiths
tooltip
tooltips
toom
toomed
toomer
toomest
tooming (current term)
tooms
toon
toon shading
tooner
tooners
toonie
toonies
toonophile
toonophiles
toons
toonwood
toorie
toories
toosh

Literary usage of Tooming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1873)
"tooming, sb. wool taken off the cards. Toota well, adv. very well, too too well . See Tula. Topple down, v. to fall. Topsy-turvy, adj. upside-down. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"tooming. An aching in the eyes. North. TOON. (1) Too. East. (2) The one ; the other. Vor. dial. ..."

3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"Tender j sickly. South. TOOM, (1) adj. Empty. North. (2) l, Unoccupied space or room. (3) ». To take wool off tb? tooming, ». Aching in the eye*. (2) Too. ..."

4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1886)
"Unoccupied space or room. (3) ». To take wool off th» run1*. tooming, ». Aching in the eye*. North. TOON, adj. (1) The one. (2) Too. Ea»t. TOOP, v. To tip. ..."

5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"... even yet in some places ten feet in thickness, tell of times when tooming faulds, or sweeping of a glen Had still been held the deeds of gallant men. ..."

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