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5 lettersPronunciation /kuːm/Sorted bcmooStarts with CEnds with B0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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