Toom v.

Sc. and north. dial. Forms: see prec. [f. TOOM a., taking the place of the earlier TEEM v.²]

  1.  trans. To empty (a vessel, receptacle, etc.); esp. to empty by drinking, to drink off the contents of.

1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxvi. 64. Ay as thay tomit thame of schot, Ffeyndis fild thame new vp to the thrott With gold of allkin prent.

1580.  Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882), IV. 187. The inhabiteris … maist filthely castes furth and tomes thair closettis and pottis on the hie gaitt.

1583.  Leg. Bp. St. Androis, Pref. 136. Concluding this, we toome a tass of wyne.

1721.  Ramsay, Prospect of Plenty, 106. They’ll toom their banks before you reap their crap.

1896.  ‘Ian Maclaren,’ Kate Carnegie, 71. Toom … yir mooth this meenut and say the twenty-third Psalm to the minister.

  2.  To empty out, discharge, pour out (water, the contents of a vessel, etc.).

1535.  Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), II. 630. This ilk Banquho, the quhilk the aill gart brew,… Amang the aill gart tume thame in the fat.

1816.  Scott, Antiq., xxxvi. She … was like to hae toomed it a’ out into the slap-basin. Ibid. (1818), Hrt. Midl., xxviii. Our gawsie Scots pint … toomed doun the creatare’s throat wi’ ane whorn.