Heam vs Eam - What's the difference?
heam | eam |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
*2011 , Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622 :
As nouns the difference between heam and eam
is that heam is the afterbirth or secundus of an animal while eam is uncle.eam
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* (l) * (l) (Scottish)Noun
(en noun)- James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam , Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.
