Definition of "holme" [holme]

• Small island. (noun)

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• "Island, went to seeke the sayd Iland who when he had found it, called it after his owne name Gardars-holme, that is to say,"
• "[Sidenote: Gardarsholme] After him one Gardarus, being mooued thereunto by the report which Naddocus gaue out concerning Island, went to seeke the sayd Iland who when he had found it, called it after his owne name Gardars-holme, that is to say, Gardars Ile."
• "Still, uncle persists that the holme is his property; and the Lairds of Lunda have always got the name of land-grabbers. ""