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1  [hohm]
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–noun British Dialect.
1. a low, flat tract of land beside a river or stream.
2. a small island, esp. one in a river or lake.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE holm; c. ON holm islet, Dan holm, Sw holme a small island, G Holm hill, island, L columen, culmen summit; see hill
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2  [hohm]
–noun
holm oak.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME, by dissimilation from holn, OE holen holly
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holm   (hōm, hōlm)   
n.   Chiefly British
An island in a river.

[Middle English, from Old Norse hōlmr; see kel-2 in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

holm 
from O.N. holmr "small island, especially in a bay or river," also "meadow by a shore," or cognate O.Dan. hulm "low lying land," from P.Gmc. *hul-maz, from PIE base *kel- "to rise, be elevated" (see hill). Obsolete, but preserved in place names. Cognate O.E. holm (only attested in poetic language) meant "sea, ocean, wave."
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