Definition of Hoer

Definition of Hoer

Homer, the great epic poet of Greece, and the greatest of all time; author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey," and for the honour of being the place of whose birth seven Greek cities contended; is said, when old and blind, to have wandered from city to city rehearsing his verses, and to have lived 900 years before Christ, some time after the reign of Solomon; it is only modern criticism that has called in question his existence, and has ventured to argue that the poems ascribed to him are a mere congeries of compositions of the early fabulous age of Greece, but the unity of the plan and the simplicity of the style of the poems go to condemn this theory in the regard of most Homeric scholars.

- Wikipedia

Hom"er (?), n. (Zoöl.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

Ho"mer (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Hoemother.

Ho"mer, n. [Heb. khōmer.] 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.]

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

(measures) An ancient hebrew measure of capacity; about 10 or 11 bushels
*1922: Head up! For every newbegotten thou shalt gather thy homer of ripe wheat. — James Joyce, Ulysses
(baseball) A four-base hit; a home run
The first baseman hit a homer to lead off the ninth.
A homing pigeon
Each of the pigeon fanciers released a homer at the same time.
(baseball) To get a four-base hit; to get a home run
The Sultan of Swat homered 714 times.
"Looks like I pulled a Homer."

Homer

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