Sc. [f. TOOM v.] A place where rubbish is or may be emptied out; a ‘coup.’
1882. Jamieson, Toom, a place into which rubbish is emptied.
1884. Blackw. Mag., June, 817/1. The piled-up rubbish of millions of years which has been cast out here as into one vast ‘toom.’
1894. Crockett, Raiders, 226. Great tails [of stones] that spread down the mountain steep, like rubble from a quarry toom.
