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hame

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hame  (hm)
n.
One of the two curved wooden or metal pieces of a harness that fits around the neck of a draft animal and to which the traces are attached.
[Middle English, from Middle Dutch; see tkei- in Indo-European roots.]
hame1
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) either of the two curved bars holding the traces of the harness, attached to the collar of a draught animal
[from Middle Dutch hame; related to Middle High German hame fishing rod]
hame2
n & adv
a Scot word for home
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Noun1.hame - stable gear consisting of either of two curved supports that are attached to the collar of a draft horse and that hold the traces
collar - a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
saddlery, stable gear, tack - gear for a horse


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Jennet Clouston and mony mair that he has harried out of house and hame.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Belyve,* the elder bairns come drapping in, At service out, amang the farmers roun'; Some ca' the pleugh, some herd, some tentie** rin A cannie*** errand to a neebor town: Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman grown, In youthfu' bloom, love sparkling in her e'e Comes hame, perhaps, to show a braw new gown, Or deposite her sair-won penny-fee,**** To help her parents dear, if they in hardship be.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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