gomer

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gomer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gomer \Go"mer\, n.
     A Hebrew measure. See Homer.
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  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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  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.]
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gomer - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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.