Sc. Obs. In 5 sowme, 5–6 sowm, 6 soume. [a. OF. soume, var. of some, somme: see SEAM sb.2 and cf. SOME sb.3] A horse-load; a pack. Also attrib. in soum saddle.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, IV. 24. Wallace … Our tuk the child Schyr Ranaldis sowme couth leid.
1497. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 345. For ane hors to bere the Kingis sowme. Ibid. (1505), III. 160. For floting of the pannell of the sowm sadill. Ibid. (1512), IV. 308. Stoppein, taggein, and mending of ane soume sadill.
c. 1575. Balfour’s Practicks (1754), 87. Ane horse sowme of the said fish, or dry hering.
