(dialectal, obsolete) To understand; comprehend; consider.
'Nobody gaums where we are now,' I said.
Aye sir, we gaum ye.
verb
(US and UK, dialects, chiefly Midlands, Southern US, Appalachia) To smear.
No, bubby, couldn't hev the wax. Gaum him all up so 't mammy 'd hafter nigh abaout skin him tu git him clean ag'in; […]
noun
(Appalachia and other dialects, rare) Grime.
Said 'Black Bill' Walker, of Walker's Valley, in speaking of the forge: 'I never heerd sech a rackity-rack! Ye'd think the heavens was fallin' down! Them fellers aworkin' thar in the sweat an' gaum reminded me more of the gate to the bad place!'