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▪ I. † lumb1 Obs.
[ad. L. lumb-us.]
The loin.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. I iij b, The kydnees..are situate vpon the lumbes [printed tumbes]. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 135/1 Let the dampe therof ascende into the Arsgutte, & soe into his Lumbes.
▪ II. lumb2
Also 8–9 lum.
1. Mining.
†a. A well for the collection of water in a mine. Obs.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. M iij, When Shafts are sunk down and troubled with Water, we Sink two or three Yards deeper than the Design of the Shaft, on purpose to hold Water one Night at least,..and this we call a Lumb.
b. (See quot. 1883.)
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. s.v. Break-off, An Alteration in a Vein, made by a jumbled Place, or Lumb of Softness. 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining, Lum [in Derbyshire], a basin or natural swamp in a coal seam, often running several hundred yards in length.
2. ‘A deep pool in the bed of a river’ (E.D.D.).
1790Grose Prov. Gloss., Lum, a deep pool.
▪ III. lumb
obs. f. loom n.2; var. lum dial. |