soam

See also: -soam

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.

Noun

soam (plural soams)

1. A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.

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2. (mining) A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
3. A horse-lead.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “soam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• -omas, Amos, MOAS, MOAs, Samo, SoMa, Soma, maos, moas, omas, soma

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Portuguese

Verb

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