▪ I. † coame, v. Obs.
[app. related to chaum in same sense; phonetic history obscure: see also coane.]
intr. To split into fissures, gape open.
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 105 b, The squared, and the rounde..timber, doth coame and gape, specially the round, because it is fuller of pithe, and therefore renteth and coameth in every place. Ibid. 108 b, The Cedar, the Eben, and the Olive tree, doe never chinke nor coame. |
▪ II. coame
obs. f. coom soot.