dial. Also stom, staum. [Related to STEM sb.] A stem or stalk; a trunk or stump of a tree.
1839. Sir G. C. Lewis, Heref. Gloss., Stam, or Stom, a stem.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., The bean staums run in my hand.
1892. D. Jordan (‘Son of the Marshes’), Within Hour of Lond., xi. (ed. 2), 209. No moss grows on their trunks, or ‘stams,’ as they are generally called in woodland dialect.
b. attrib. stam-wood, the roots of trees removed from the earth.
1681. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (ed. 3), 332. Stamwood, the Roots of Trees grubbed up.
1851. Sternberg, Dial. Northampt., 104.
