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hame string

hame string noun: a leather strap or thong used to hold a horse's hame together.

Noun

hame string (plural hame strings)

  1. A leather strap or thong used to hold a horse's hame together.
    • It was not an uncommon thing, when we were going through a corn row, for the point of the coulter to strike a root or stone, when the hame-string would break and the harness and Tom would come flying off over the horse's rump […].1895, William Cooper Howells, Recollections of Life in Ohio, 1813-1840, page 82
    • “I'll take a hame string to you,” I says. “That's what I'll give you. Going through my papers.”1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

Forms of hame string

pluralhame strings

Questions about hame string

What does hame string mean?
Hame string means a leather strap or thong used to hold a horse's hame together.
What part of speech is hame string?
Hame string is a noun.
What is the plural of hame string?
The plural of hame string is hame strings.

Words near hame string in the dictionary

  1. Hamden
  2. Hamdens
  3. hamdog
  4. hamdogs
  5. hame
  6. hame string
  7. hame strings
  8. Hamed
  9. Hamedan
  10. Hameds
  11. Hamedān

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