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hame strings

hame strings is the plural of hame string.

Meaning of hame string

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

Questions about hame strings

What is hame strings the plural of?
Hame strings is the plural of hame string.

Words near hame strings in the dictionary

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

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