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Webster 1913 Edition
Coomb
Coomb
,Noun.
[AS.
cumb
a liquid measure, perh. from LL. cumba
boat, tomb of stone, fr. Gr. [GREEK] hollow of a vessel, cup, boat, but cf. G. kumpf
bowl.] A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
[Written also
comb
.] Webster 1828 Edition
Coomb
COOMB
, COMB,Noun.
Definition 2024
coomb
coomb
English
Noun
coomb (plural coombs)
- An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels. Also comb.
- 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:
- It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.
- 1790 July 13, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Secretary of State, Plan for establishing uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States," report communicated to the House of Representatives:
- Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.
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- Alternative spelling of combe
- 1896, Tomas Hardy, chapter 4, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
- 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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