noun.
One of the two curved wooden or metal pieces of a harness that fits around the neck of a draft animal and to which the traces are attached.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
An obsolete or dialectal form of halm.
noun.
A covering; a skin; a membrane.
noun.
One of two curved pieces of wood or metal in the harness of a draft-horse, to which the traces are fastened, and which lie upon the collar or have pads attached to them fitting the horse's neck. See cut under harness.
noun.
A Scotch form of home.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
Home.
noun.
One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them.