soam

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See also: -soam

English

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.

Noun

soam (plural soams)

  1. A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
    • 1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:
      In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree
  2. (mining) A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
  3. A horse-lead.

References

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

soam

  1. (reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of soar
  2. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of soer:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Portuguese

Verb

soam

  1. third-person plural present indicative of soar