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单词 taum
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taumn.

Brit. /tɔːm/, U.S. /tɔm/, /tɑm/, Scottish English /tɔm/
Forms: Also tawm, towm, toum, tome, tom, tam, etc.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse taumr.
Etymology: < Old Norse taumr a cord, rein, line, etc., in Norwegian taum string, line, e.g. on a fishing-rod (Aasen), in Faroese teymur (ey = Old Norse au ) a short string at the end of a fishing line to which the hook is secured. Cognate with Old English téam line, team, Old High German zoum , German zaum , Old Saxon tôm , Dutch toom rein, bridle: see team n.
Scottish and northern dialect.
A fishing-line, usually one of horse-hair twisted. Locally, also, a string of other kinds ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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1670 Bk. Barony of Urie (1892) 90 Showe them wher they ar to cast in ther severall toumes.
a1733 Shetland Acts 11 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1892) 26 198 All lines and tomes made of horse-hair.
1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss., Towm.
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. 158 [He] cleekit a hantle o' geds and perches [out of the loch] wi' his toum.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Tawm, Tam, a fishing line. ‘A lang twine tam’.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Taum, a fishing line.
1851 Gloss. Provinc. Words Cumberland Tome, a hair line for fishing.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 176 A Tawm, a fishing line and rod. ‘A fishing tawm’.
1904 Daily Chron. 19 Feb. 3/2 When a Scotch fisherman speaks of his line as a ‘taum’, he makes rather a fine use of the Old Norse word for ‘bridle’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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