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Webster 1913 Edition


Barm

Barm

(bärm)
,
Noun.
[OE.
berme
, AS.
beorma
; akin to Sw.
bärma
, G.
bärme
, and prob. L.
fermentum
. √93.]
Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
Shak.

Barm

,
Noun.
[OE.
bearm
,
berm
,
barm
, AS.
bearm
; akin to E.
bear
to support.]
The lap or bosom.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Barm

B'ARM

,
Noun.
[L, fermentum, from ferveo; or beer-rahm, beer cream.]
Yeast; the scum rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in bread to make it swell, causing it to be softer, lighter, and more delicate. It may be used in liquors to make them ferment or work.

Definition 2024


barm

barm

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)m/

Noun

barm (plural barms)

  1. (obsolete except in dialects) Bosom, lap.
    • Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

Etymology 2

From Old English beorma; related to the dialectal (Low) German Bärm ("yeast"), from Middle Low German barm, berm. The cake sense is possibly a shortened form of barmcake, which would be made with yeast as described in that sense, or possibly it is from the Irish báirín breac, a type of cake.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɑː(ɹ)m/

Noun

barm (countable and uncountable, plural barms)

  1. Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast.
    • 1590?, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II. scene i. line 25:
      ...and sometimes make the drink to bear no barm.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 620:
      In 1577 yeast, called barm, is bought at 9d. the pail.
    • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 65:
      And he chaffed the women as he served them their ha'porths of barm.
  2. A small, flat, round individual loaf or roll of bread.

Translations

See also


Cimbrian

Noun

barm ? (plural [please provide])

  1. heat

References

  • “barm” in Umberto Martello Martalar, Alfonso Bellotto, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Setti Communi vicentini, 1st edition, 1974.

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse baðmr (bosom).

Noun

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. bosom
Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old Norse barmr (rim).

Noun

barm c (singular definite barmen, plural indefinite barme)

  1. (nautical, archaic) a corner of a sail
Inflection

Gothic

Romanization

barm

  1. Romanization of 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌼

Icelandic

Noun

barm

  1. indefinite accusative singular of barmur

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse baðmr (bosom).

Noun

barm c

  1. bosom

Declension

Inflection of barm 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative barm barmen barmar barmarna
Genitive barms barmens barmars barmarnas