Hames

The curved pieces of wood in the harness of a draught-horse, called the hames, to which the traces are fastened, could be found in twisted growths, as could also portions of ox-yokes. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

The East Anglian harness is distinctive, as the hames around the collar, or seals as they are known in their home County, are made of wood rather than metal and the saddle tree is exposed without the usual leather covering. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And lang may their lum reek in their ain hames ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is an interesting commentary piece in this morning's Times by Tim hames which argues that spin really has ended under Brown and that "no longer will journalists be able to declare that “ministers will say” or “ministers will do” with the confidence of oracles in the ancient world." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Kidnapping a Sidhe child was cause for war-between Elfhame Misthold and Elfhame Bete Noir at least; between as many of the hames as each side could draw in at worst. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

Kidnapping a Sidhe child was cause for war — between Elfhame Misthold and Elfhame Bete Noir at least; between as many of the hames as each side could draw in at worst. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)

Kentucky on December 18 in the Jimmy V Classic, tallied 20-plus points for the seventh time in 11 hames this season. ❋ Unknown (2001)

It was only a trip, but as he got up and faced about looking for the remains of the sled, the harness, tugged by the reins, crowded on his neck — backband, collar, hames, chains and all. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There were rumors that there were gentler ways, but no one in Misthold was really certain what was involved, actually, though Kory had the elven librarians searching the most ancient records and sending to the other hames for hints of the ancient Seleighe quickening magics. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

Underhill was a place composed of all places and none, Chaos Lands given form and substance by magic alone, in which the hames glowed like abhorrent stars, welding all Underhill together into one vast tapestry. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

He rode forth with the Hosts of Hell at his back'landless knights cast out by their hames, Low Court spirits bound to him by magic'to hunt and harry where he would, for this time-bound world had long been his playground. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

"Maybe you could see if any of the other hames have been attacked, " Beth suggested cautiously. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

At last elvenkind was banished into the shadows of this world, its foothold a tenuous one, its vast empire shrunken to a handful of hames. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

Some of the hames entertained themselves by collecting art and literature about the Fair Folk that was created by humans, and that would certainly be right in line with Glitterhame Neversleep's corporate culture. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

"And what else is a Node Grove for, but to anchor the hames into the -now" of the World Above? ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

There were hames as decadent and luxurious as she could possibly imagine, and even hames where all the work was done by human changelings, but Misthold wasn't one of them. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)

Movies they could always see later; with help from Elfhame Fairgrove in Savannah, the most technologically sophisticated of the hames, a limited amount of human technology had been brought Underhill for the benefit of Beth and other humans who had sought shelter there. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2001)