soam

noun — 3 senses

soam

noun

Etymology Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.

1

A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.

In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines:

2

Business, Mining A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.

3

A horse-lead.

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