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hamare [CLp. ppl. only] 1 to make hooked. b to catch w. a hook; c (fig.). to hooke, ~are, incurvare Levins Manip. 159.  b hunc premit umbone, petit illum cum pugione, / multos mucrone; grandia cete Jone / “dux ego sum” clamat, predicta promptissimus hamat [cf. Job xl 20] W. Peterb. Bell. Hisp. p. 119.  c si vario fuerit tua mens hamata dolore D. Bec. 856; hec ego letus pendentia sumere ramo. / dum spatiatur amor, sub ramo leniter hamor Neckam Poems 123; non terrenus amor hamat, non ambitus ambit H. Avr. Hugh 696; semper amo nec amor; set amans sic, hamo [gl.: decipio] quod hamor [gl.: decipior], / hamor in hoc hamo pectus inescat amor; / ast ego semper amor et amo nec hamo nec hamor / cui crucis ex hamo verus abundat amor Garl. Epith. VIII 99–102. 2 (p. ppl.) furnished w. hooks or barbs (also fig.). b (w. ref. to chain armour) made by joining hooks. ~atum, uncis circumdatum GlC H 26; rusticus ‥ habeat fuscinam ~atam [gl.: croké] ut se piscibus reficere possit Neckam Ut. 110 (cf. ib. 97: gurgustio vel funda [gl.: virga ~ata] vel fuscina [gl.: idem]); s1252 gaudens quod manus aduncas et ~atas evasisset M. Par. Maj. V 351; c1521 in coquina: ‥ ij ferrea ~ata super quibus vertitur veru Cant. Coll. Ox. I 64.  b si lorica ~ata quae sit inquiris, lege in Virgilio [cf. Verg. Aen. III 467] Bede Sam. (1 Sam. iii) 611; evasit ~ate thoracis adjutus beneficio W. Malm. GR V 401; dum ‥ pravitatem defendit intricatione falsitatis ~ate lorice interceptus, proculdubio deicitur homo a bone intentionis sue studio R. Niger Mil. I 27.

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