coomb
/kuːm/
coomb noun: a tub or vat, especially used in brewing. Also the alternative spelling of combe.
Noun
coomb (plural coombs)
- A tub or vat, especially used in brewing.
- An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
- It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168
- Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.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...
Also used as
coomb is also the alternative spelling of combe.
Forms of coomb
| plural | coombs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | comb |
Origin of coomb
From Middle English *coumb, *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom (“tub, cistern”)), from Old English cumb (“a vessel; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *kumb, from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl, vessel”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”). Cognate with Dutch kom (“basin, bowl”), German Kumpf (“bowl”).
Words that rhyme with coomb
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- gloom
- home
- presume
- whom
- womb
- resume
- tomb
- abloom
- legume
- loom
- rheum
- backroom
- boardroom
- combe
- entomb
- enwomb
- exhume
- flume
- grume
- kaboom
- Khartoum
- neume
- packing room
- shroom
- sloom
- subsume
- absume
- addoom
- anteroom
- barroom
- bitume
- brume
- chum
- cloom
- cwm
- desume
- fixing room
- foredoom
- fwoom
- glume
- illume
- khoum
- locker room
- raying room
- simoom
- spume
- thoom
- toom
Questions about coomb
- What does coomb mean?
- Coomb means a tub or vat, especially used in brewing.
- What part of speech is coomb?
- Coomb is a noun.
- How do you pronounce coomb?
- Coomb is pronounced /kuːm/.
- What is the plural of coomb?
- The plural of coomb is coombs.
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