Obs. rare. [a. OF. some (mod.F. somme) horse-load.] The number of twelve thousand (nails or needles).

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  The use survives in mod.F. (Littré s.v. Somme).

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1539–40.  in Archaeol. Cant. (1893), XX. 243. 2 ‘some’ of ‘sprygg’ 10s.

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1545.  Rates of Customs, b viij b. Nidels, the some conteinynge xii M., xs. Ibid., c iij. Patten nayles the some, iis.

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  Some, obs. form of SOAM, SUM sb.

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