English Explanatory Dictionary

hame

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.
noun
  1. Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
noun
  1. Scottish and Northern English form of home
noun
  1. Alternative form of haulm.

Word forms

hame hames

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”).

Related words

heam likam

Derived words

hamestrap hame string
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