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disselboom

disselboom noun: one of the poles supporting a wagon.

Noun

disselboom (plural disselbooms)

  1. One of the poles supporting a wagon.
    • That morning on which Mr. Neville was starting I saw Jim standing by my wagon and cutting up tobacco on the disselboom.1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines

Forms of disselboom

pluraldisselbooms

Origin of disselboom

Borrowed from Afrikaans disselboom, from Dutch disselboom, a compound of dissel (“support pole”) and boom (“tree; beam”).

Questions about disselboom

What does disselboom mean?
Disselboom means one of the poles supporting a wagon.
What part of speech is disselboom?
Disselboom is a noun.
What is the plural of disselboom?
The plural of disselboom is disselbooms.

Words near disselboom in the dictionary

  1. disseizor
  2. disseizoress
  3. disseizoresses
  4. disseizors
  5. disseizure
  6. disselboom
  7. disselbooms
  8. dissemblance
  9. dissemblances
  10. dissemble
  11. dissembled

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