SLOOM

PRONUNCIATION: (sloom)

MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To slumber.
2. To soften, decay, or waste.
noun: A light sleep.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English sluma (slumber). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
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LLOOM - a plain cloth made from the fur of Agentinean beasts of burden

SLOLOM - going around abstacles as you're skiing downhill

SLOO - what David did to Goliath