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coomb

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5
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/kuːm/

Definition of coomb

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
    “It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.”
    “Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.”
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noun

  1. An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
    “It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.”
    “Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.”
  2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of combe.
    “From the centre of each side of this tree-bound square ran avenues east, west, and south into the wide expanse of corn-land and coomb to the distance of a mile or so.”

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Etymology

From Middle English *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom (“tub, cistern”)), from Old English cumb (“a vessel; a liquid measure”), from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl, vessel”). Compare German Kumpf (“bowl”). Alternatively, perhaps from Latin cumba (“boat, tomb of stone”), from Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow of a vessel, cup, boat”).

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