hame

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
4

Definition of hame

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.
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noun

  1. (obsolete)shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.
  2. Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
  3. (Northern-English, Scottish, alt-of)Scottish and Northern English form of home
  4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of haulm.

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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”).

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