nombles

English

Noun

nombles pl (plural only)

Alternative form of numbles
- 1800, James Hogg, The Mysterious Bride:
  […] as she had seen the red blood and the new grave, when she was a little girl, and ran home and mentioned it to her grandfather, who charged her as she valued her life never to mention that again, as it was only the nombles and hide of a deer which he himself had buried there.

References

“nombles”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle French

Noun

nombles m pl

entrails of a pig, cow, deer etc. viewed as food

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (nombles)

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