noun
Meaning 1
shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
hame
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noun
Meaning 2
Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
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noun
Meaning 3
Scottish and Northern English form of home
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Usage: Northern-English, Scottish, alt-of
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative form of haulm.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Meaning 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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: stable gear, saddlery, tack
History
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.
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: länget — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.
- Irish: amaí — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.
- Māori: hemi — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.
- Plautdietsch: Heem — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.
- Polish: kleszczyna — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.
- Russian: хомутовые клещи (xomutovyje klešči) — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.
- Ukrainian: клі́щі (klíšči) — metal or wooden pieces of a horse collar to which the traces (straps, ropes or chains) of the harness are attached by which a carriage or wagon is drawn.