Sentence:  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' <WSD>gaum</WSD> reminded me more of the gate to the bad place!' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Grime.