Citations:goom
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English citations of goom
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[edit]- 1874, The Church Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine of Church Literature, page 184:
- Lord Granville at once dismounted, and, seeing no signs of life, despatched the goom for assistance to Abinger Hall, which was the nearest house.
??? something used to move a boat along a river
[edit]- 1881, India Seventy Years Ago, page 153 and page 156:
- Each of us, therefore, chose a pinnace, which is a decked boat, divided into two rooms, and, though well furnished with canvas, depends chiefly for progression upon the labours of the dandies or boatmen, who, carrying on their shoulders a wooden staff connected with a thin rope, which is again attached to the goom, they toil the live-long day under a vertical sun to obtain, by the severest labours, a scanty livelihood.
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- The rapid rolling of the river, and the continued interruptions to the towing on the bank, the necessity of passing the goom over boats attached to the shore, […]
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[edit]- 1868, Life in the Argentine Republic in the days of the tyrants, page 60:
- In Africa, at the present day, there exists the same struggle between civilization and barbarism; the goom and the montonera are distinguished by the same characters, the same spirit, the same undisciplined strategy.
- 1951, Western Construction, volume 26, page 59:
- Better aggregates are on the market even if the mechanical equipment does wash all the "goom" and too much of the "powder" out of the sand.