_Groom, Meaning of_ (Vol. v., p. 57.).--_Guma_ in Anglo-Saxon, and the
_Codex Argenteus_, means simply man. Horne Tooke derives bridegroom from
it.
"Consider groom of the chambers, groom-porter."--_Nares._
Herd grooms, in Spenser's _Pastorals_, and a passage in Massinger:
Gifford, vol. iii. p. 435.
Grome is quoted by Halliwell, as meaning a man. Also _gome_, which he
says lasted till the civil wars.