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Definitions
An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
Word origin
From Middle English *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom (“tub, cistern”)), from Old English cumb (“a vessel; a liquid measure”), from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl, vessel”). Compare German Kumpf (“bowl”).
Used in a sentence
“It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.”
“Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.”
“From the centre of each side of this tree-bound square ran avenues east, west, and south into the wide expanse of corn-land and coomb to the distance of a mile or so.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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