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coomb.

A tub or vat, especially used in brewing.

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Meaning & usage

noun/kuːm/
  1. A tub or vat, especially used in brewing.

    dialectal
  2. An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.

Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/kuːm/
  1. Alternative spelling of combe.

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