See sloom on Wiktionary
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"ref": "a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, “Elia”, in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company, published 1854, page 193:",
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"ref": "1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66",
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"ref": "2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water, Berkley Publishing Group (2003), page 205",
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"ref": "1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329",
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"ref": "1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance:",
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"ref": "a. 1853, Jane Ermina Locke, “Elia”, in The Recalled: In Voices of the Past, and Poems of the Ideal, James Munroe and Company, published 1854, page 193:",
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"ref": "1900, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Maid of Maiden lane, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 181:",
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"ref": "1936, Esmond Quinterley, Ushering Interlude, The Fortune Press, page 66",
"text": "The afternoon sun painted amber patterns on the Turkey red hearthrug: the only splash of colour in the dun room. Potter sloomed in the arms of the chair."
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"ref": "2001, Gemma O'Connor, Walking on Water, Berkley Publishing Group (2003), page 205",
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"ref": "a. 1807, unidentified young farmer, letter to his father, printed in Edinburgh Farmers’ Magazine 1807, reprinted in The Farmer’s Register, Volume 7, Number 9 (1839 September 30), page 540",
"text": "He adds, that one hundred bolls, or fifty quarters of wheat may be thrashed in a day of eight hours, unless the grain has been sloomed or mildewed; […]"
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"ref": "1824 August, “Remarks on Captian Napier's Essay on Store-Farming”, in The Farmer’s Magazine, Volume XXV, Archibald Constable and Company (publishers), page 329",
"text": "[…] no other spot over their whole pastured offered as much verdure at this time as these seemingly sloomed places."
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"ref": "c. 1854, Alexander J. Main, “Experiments with Special Manures”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, W. Blackwood & Sons (1855), page 17",
"text": "It must be explained, however, that in the latter case the “slooming” of the crop had an injurious effect on its yield; […]"
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