Noun: barm
Genitive
Sample Sentences
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Late 14th century: And with that word this faucon gan to crie / And swowned eft in Canacees barm. (Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales)
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Late 14th century: … kisse hire child er that it deyde / And in hir barm this litel child she leyde. (Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Clerk's Tale’, Canterbury Tales)
Etymology
From Old English bearm, from Proto-West Germanic *barm, from Proto-Germanic *barmaz. See: Old English Nouns '
bearm'.
Verbs referencing "barm"
English Nouns
barm.
Translations