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seám

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
seám, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§335;
a seam, a load, burden [a seam of corn is a quarter, eight bushels; a seam of wood is a horse-load; a seam of dung 3 cwts. (Devon), v. E. D. S. Pub. Reprinted Glossaries, and Farming Words 1,
    3, 7.
.]
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  • Seám vel berþen

    sarcina,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 16, 27: Ælfc. Gr. 9, 32; Zup. 59, 3.

  • Seáme

    sarcina,

      Hpt. Gl. 528, 35.

  • Gé sýmaþ men mid byrþenum (seámum,

      Lind. : seómum, Rush.) . . .
    and gé ne áhrínaþ ða seámas mid eówrum ánum fingre, Lk. Skt. 11, 46.

  • Wæs þridde healf þúsend múla ðe ða seámas (

    sarcinas

    ) wǽgon.
      Nar. 9, 10 : 23, 1-2.
the furniture of a beast of burden
— Rachel hig hæfde gehýdd under ánes olfendes seáme (subter stramenta cameli),
    Gen. 31, 34.
that in which a burden may be carried, a bag
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  • Búta seáme (seóme, Rush. )

    sine sacculo,

      Lk. Skt. Lind. 22, 35.

  • Nællaþ gié gebeara seám (seóm, Rush.)

    nolite portare sacculum,

      10, 4.
as a technical term,
a service which consisted in supplying the lord with beasts of burden ; summagium, sagmegium
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  • Hé sceal beón gehorsad, ðæt hé mǽge tó hláfordes seáme ðæt (

    the horse

    ) syllan oððe sylf lǽdan, swæðer him man tǽce,
      L. R. S. 5; Th. i. 436, 6.
Etymology
[I shal assoille þe myselue for a seme of whete, Piers P. 3, 40. Seem of corne quarterium, Prompt. Parv. 452. O. H. Ger. soum sagma, sella, sarcina. From Lat. (Gk.) sagma, later salma; cf. Ital. salma ; Fr. somme.]
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v. ofer-seám; síman.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “seám.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27251.

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