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Coomb

//kuːm// noun

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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."
2
Alternative spelling of combe. alt-of, alternative
"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."

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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