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soam

soam noun: a chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.

Noun

soam (plural soams)

  1. A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
    • In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines
  2. A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
  3. A horse-lead.

Forms of soam

pluralsoams

Origin of soam

Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.

Questions about soam

What does soam mean?
Soam means a chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
What part of speech is soam?
Soam is a noun.
What is the plural of soam?
The plural of soam is soams.

Words near soam in the dictionary

  1. soaks up
  2. soakt
  3. soaky
  4. soal
  5. soals
  6. soam
  7. Soames
  8. Soameses
  9. soams
  10. Soane
  11. Soans

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