soam
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See also: -soam
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.
Noun[edit]
soam (plural soams)
- A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
- 1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:
- In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree
- (mining) A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
- A horse-lead.
References[edit]
- “soam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
Galician[edit]
Verb[edit]
soam
- (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of soar
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection of soer:
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
soam