▪ I. † hawmed, a. Obs.
[Derivation doubtful.
It may possibly be f. haum, hawm, hame n.2 (of the collar of a horse) as resembling them in their curvature. Another suggestion is f. hawm, haulm + -ed2: in allusion to the prominent joints or frequent crookedness of jointed stalks.]
Of legs: Bandy, curved.
| 1610 Holland Camden's Brit. i. 530 The diuels of Crowland with their..crooked and hawm'd legs [vncis cruribus]. |
▪ II. hawmed, haumed
? corrupt form of humet, humetty.
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 14 b, The Hawmed in this Cote armour, is a manifeste demonstration of buriall, and is an aunciente token in Armorie. 1602 Carew Cornwall (1811) 373 He..beareth, a, a cross haumed s. |