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Hame
Definitions
- 1 shroud, a covering, skin, membrane. obsolete
- 2 Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
- 3 Scottish and Northern English form of home Northern-English, Scottish, alt-of
- 4 Alternative form of haulm. alt-of, alternative
- 5 stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Old Norse hamr and its descendants, such as Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”).
From Middle English hame, from Middle Dutch hame (“horse collar, harness, fishnet”), from Old Dutch *hamo, from Frankish *hamō, from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“fishnet, collar for a horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom- (“part of a harness”). Cognate with Middle Low German ham, hame (“collar, fishnet”), Old High German hamo (“sack-like fishnet”) (Modern German dialectal Hame, Hamen (“hand fishnet”), Ham (“horse collar”)).
From Middle English ham, from Old English hām (“home”). More at home.
From earlier haum, haume.
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