tharm

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  1. An intestine; an entrail; gut. [Obsolete or dialectal.] Eustathius … doth tell that in old time they made their bow-strings of bullocks' thermes, which they twined together as they do ropes. Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 103. When I am tired of scraping thairm or singing ballants. Scott, Redgauntlet, letter xi.

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  1. Early modern English also therm, Scots thairm; from Middle English tharm, therm, from Anglo-Saxon thearm = OFries. therm, thirm = D. Middle Low German darm = Old High German daram, Middle High German G. darm = Icelandic tharmr = Swedish Danish tarm, gut, = Latin trames, way, = Greek τράμις, tharm, gut; cf. τρῆμα, hole, ear, from τετραίνειν (√ τρα), bore through.
 

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