Middle English Dictionary Entry
soume n.
Entry Info
| Forms | soume n. Pl. soumes, somes, sommais. |
| Etymology | Perh. ON: cp. OI saumr; but also cp. OFsome, soume pack-saddle or AL sauma, var. of ML sagma pack-saddle; cp. ME summe n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
?A plough trace, often of iron.
Associated quotations
- (1397) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.cxviii : Husbandria..Item, ij sommays cum iij cruks.
- (1404) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100398 : Item, in Orreo..3 plogherbandis, 8 sowmes, 2 plaustra cum rotis ferratis.
- (1408) Invent.Jarrow in Sur.Soc.2981 : Item, in custodia prepositi, ij carucæ, x somes, iij sokkys.
- (1411) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.clviii : Husbandria..Item, remanent viij sowmes ferri.
- (1451) Doc.in Sur.Soc.2130 : Johannes Bartram et Mariot uxor ejus..Fatentur se habere 3 crokes, 1 sowme, 1 veru, 1 hamum, 1 wege ferri, 1 materes.