Gomer

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gomer \Go"mer\, n.
     A Hebrew measure. See {Homer}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Gomer \Go"mer\, n. (Gun.)
     A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy
     ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homer \Ho"mer\, n. [Heb. kh[=o]mer.]
     A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths,
     equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and,
     as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two
     pecks, four quarts. [Written also {chomer}, {gomer}.]
     [1913 Webster]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gomer
     complete; vanishing. (1.) The daughter of Diblaim, who (probably
     in vision only) became the wife of Hosea (1:3).
     
       (2.) The eldest son of Japheth, and father of Ashkenaz,
     Riphath, and Togarmah (Gen. 10:2, 3), whose descendants formed
     the principal branch of the population of South-eastern Europe.
     He is generally regarded as the ancestor of the Celtae and the
     Cimmerii, who in early times settled to the north of the Black
     Sea, and gave their name to the Crimea, the ancient Chersonesus
     Taurica. Traces of their presence are found in the names
     Cimmerian Bosphorus, Cimmerian Isthmus, etc. In the seventh
     century B.C. they were driven out of their original seat by the
     Scythians, and overran western Asia Minor, whence they were
     afterwards expelled. They subsequently reappear in the times of
     the Romans as the Cimbri of the north and west of Europe, whence
     they crossed to the British Isles, where their descendants are
     still found in the Gaels and Cymry. Thus the whole Celtic race
     may be regarded as descended from Gomer.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Gomer, to finish; complete