Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A slender grooved lead bar used to hold together the panes in stained glass or latticework windows.
- v. Past tense of come.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit of come.
- n. A comb.
- n. A ridge.
- n. The batch or amount of lead necessary to make sash-bars for 100 square feet of glazing; also, this amount cast into small rods or bars 12 or 14 inches long, and ready for drawing.
- n. Hence The prepared sash-bar itself, having a section like an I, more or less rounded at each end, and called in technical language glaziers' turned lead or window-lead.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past of come.
- v. Simple past of cum.
- n. A grooved strip of lead used to hold panes of glass together.
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. of come.
- n. A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.
Etymologies
- Compare Scots came ("comb"), caim ("comb"), and Middle English camet ("silver"). (Wiktionary)
- Possibly dialectal kame, ridge; see kame. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“During the months in camp he had been wholly absorbed in new work and new friendships, and now his own neighbourhood came to him with the freshness of things that have been forgotten for a long while, came together before his eyes as a harmonious whole.”
“When Theodore Roosevelt first came into my life, he came to help.”
“And ascended into heaven" -- this passage shows the belief that He returned to the place from which He came, for the Nicene Creed has stated that he "_came down from heaven_ and was incarnate ... and was made man.”
“Wych Hazel turned for one more look at the road, drew a deep sigh that was half patient and half impatient; and then slowly pulling off cap and gloves came forward to the corner room, chanting softly to herself as she came”
“But when the new Logician, who was the new Magician, came, with 'the part operative' of his speculation; with his 'New Machine,' with the rod of his new definition, with the staff of _his_ genera and species, -- when the right name was found for it, it heard, it heard afar, it heard in its heaven and _came_.”
“Hitherto the ship had been kept in her first position by backing and filling the mizen-topsail, but now she came to, and eventually _came round_: but”
Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I
“Maclachlan, who was much the fharper man of the two, no fooner heard that this lady came from Chef - ter, with the other circumftances which he learned from the hosier, than it came* into his head that fhe might poffibly be his friend's wife; and prefently ac - quainted him with this fufpicion, which had never once occurred to Fitzpatrick himfelf.”
“Poet to whose _human_ sense those hard hostile walls dissolved and cleared away, till he could see the Volscian wives clasping _their_ loves, as they 'came coffined home'; it was the Poet who dared to stain the joy and triumph of that fond meeting, the glory and pride of that triumphal entry, with those _human_ thoughts; it was he who heard above the roll of the drum, and the swell of the clarions and trumpets, and the shout of the rejoicing multitude above the herald's voice -- the groans of mortal anguish in the field, the cries of human sorrow in the city, the shrieks of mothers that lacked sons, the greetings of wives whose loves '_came coffined home_.”
“Some people say the term came from Adbusters, the non-profit "culture-jamming" magazine that initiates activist campaigns.”
The Huffington Post: Turnstyle: Who's Behind It? Tracing The Origins Of The 99 Percent Movement
“The term came home, however, in the sixteenth century.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘came’.
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How She Entered the Room
Meant to be added to the word 'in' example 'burst in'
burst, swept, came, jumped, broke, flew, flitted, billowed, gallumphed, staggered, wafted, lurched and 39 more...
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Pterodactyl's Game of Postal Abbrevia...
Here's a fun little word game that might appeal to my fellow Wordies. The object of this game is to create the longest possible word, using only the official two-letter abbreviations of U.S. states...
deny, lame, mope, demand, camp, cask, hind, decamp, canvas, scalar, mental, pronks and 75 more...
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Anagram Weapons
I'm looking for single-word anagrams of weapon names. Your additions are welcomed. A spoilt pilot's pistol to the best submitted.
This list was born when I noticed oppugn was an anagra...oppugn, pears, flier, ragged, pilots, spoilt, words, repair, admires, enraged, reaps, pagan and 20 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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loinfruit's Words
buddy, hungry, hug, want, you, i, mommy, school, ballet, sign, sign language, language and 170 more...
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aparrish's Words
the, this, and, a, that, i, me, you, him, her, she, he and 96 more...
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abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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four-letter words starting with 'c'
clap, claw, cast, cart, cork, cord, care, cram, corn, cusp, cure, curt and 85 more...
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Glassmaking terms
avolio, aeolipile, rhyton, came, acid etching, acid stamping, twist, air twist, annealing, at-the-fire, glory hole, glazier and 67 more...
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reesetee A grooved strip of lead or (rarely) another metal, generally with an H-shaped cross section, used to join separate parts of glass windows. Nov 8, 2007