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† quamire Obs.
Also 6 -myre, -mier, 8 dial. whamire.
[? var. of quall- or quavemire: see quagmire, and cf. Sc. quaw-mire s.v. quaw.]
A quagmire, bog. Also fig.
1555Eden Decades 99 Muddy marysshes full of suche quamyres that men are oftentymes swalowed vp in them. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 75 For quamier get bootes. 1587Golding De Mornay iii. 32 If we wil get out of the Quamyre of our sinnes. Ibid. xix. 302 Orpheus..as for the wicked..burieth them in a quamire. 1703Thoresby Let. to Ray 27 Apr. (E.D.S.), Whamire, a quagmire. |