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from The Century Dictionary.
- Arch-shaped.
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Examples
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Soa I coomed away, but t 'awd lass sings out --' Oh, Mister Soldier, please coom again and bring that prettee dog. '
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Soa I coomed away, but t 'awd lass sings out -- "Oh, Mister Soldier, please coom again and bring that prettee dog."
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"Wha's coomed?" replied the clergyman, relapsing into his Yorkshire speech.
The Parish Clerk 1892
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Then he got near enough to pluck him by the arm, which he did rather vigorously, shouting at the same time, "Shoo's coomed."
The Parish Clerk 1892
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Its a blessin aw coomed wi thi or else tha'd just ha thrown ten shillin away.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Vor all at once we had coomed upon a lot o 'rocks covered wi' a sort of slimy stuff, and so slippery as you could scarce keep a footing on 'em.
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"They hevn't coomed yet, hev they?" we heard the sexton's son say, as he peeped over at our pond.
We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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Me an 'Bill war talkin' o't jist afore I coomed to the wheel.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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Well, I runned arter thief i 'the dark, and fell ageän coalscuttle and my kneeä gev waäy or I'd ha' cotched 'im, but afoor I coomed up he got thruff the winder ageän.
Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Thy feyther eddicated his darters to marry gentlefoälk, and see what's coomed on it.
Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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