Coom

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  • v. Eye dialect spelling of come.
  • n. soot, smut
  • n. dust
  • n. grease
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Coal-dust; culm.
  • n. Soot.
  • n. The matter that works out of the naves or boxes of carriage-wheels.
  • n. The dust and scrapings of wood produced in sawing.
  • n. An old English dry measure of 4 bushels, or half a quarter (equal to 141 liters), not yet entirely disused. Also spelled coomb.
  • n. The wooden frame used in building the arch of a bridge.
  • Word Usage
    "The whole side of the peat-stack had tumbled bodily into the great "black peat-hole" from which the winter's peats had come, and which was a favourite lair of Jock's own, being ankle-deep in fragrant dry peat "coom" -- which is, strange to say, a perfectly clean and even a luxurious bedding, far to be preferred as a couch to "flock" or its kindred abominations."
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    soot   
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