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Webster 1913 Edition
Ham
Ham
(häm)
, Noun.
Home.
[North of Eng.]
Chaucer.
Ham
(hăm)
, Noun.
[AS.
ham
; akin to D. ham
, dial. G. hamme
, OHG. hamma
. Perh. named from the bend at the ham, and akin to E. chamber
. Cf. Gammon
ham.] 1.
(Anat.)
The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
2.
The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak
hams
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Ham
HAM
, Sax.ham, a house, is our modern word home, G.heim. It is used in hamlet, and in the names of places, as in Walt-ham, wood-house, walt, a wood, and ham, a house, [not Wal-tham, as it is often pronounced,] Bucking-ham, Notting-ham, Wrent-ham, Dur-ham, &c.HAM
,Noun.
1.
The thigh of a beast, particularly of a hog, whether salted and cured or not. But the word is more generally understood to mean the thigh of a hog salted and dried in smoke.