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a variant of "gaum" i.e. "smear"
- compare the 1990 Appalachian Journal citation of gaum (it discusses gauming bricks)
- 1861, Factories and Workshops: Annual Report, page 122:
- Add to this 3 miles traversed in ‘gorming’ and ‘hacking’ the bricks, and two miles in coming to work and going back home, and we arrive at the conclusion that the elder clay-carriers, of from 14 to 16 years of age, walk 22 miles daily and in the course of the day lifts, moulds, squeezes and planes, and helps to 'tap,' 'gorm,' 'batt' and 'hack,' some 8 tons of clay each day.