I put Coomb Hole into Google and this came up......... [The Phonosemantics of Nasal-Stop Clusters Ralph Emerson I began to look for 'concavity' words in English. Two types emerged. The first is a fairly prosaic group comprising three semantic subsets. The key words are concave, chamber, empty, and container. 'Container' is also the first subset: decanter, tumbler 'drinking glass', bumper 'glass filled to the brim for making a toast', lantern, hamper, trunk, tank, sink, and hangar. The second subset is 'small holes or indentations': dent, ding, rent, wound, chink, bunghole. The third is 'holes in the ground': sinkhole, pond, sump, trench, bunker, tomb, catacomb. The pound of impound and dog pound originally meant 'a pit for holding livestock'. The word coomb fits two of the preceding classes, for it can mean both 'container' ('a capacity measure of four bushels') and 'hole in the ground' ('valley').] It would be interesting to find out which 'valley container' they meant near Kingsclere. There being so many! Sorry I can't find anything else which fits. Perhaps somebody else can. Regards, Carol ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Lewis" <jayell@ntlworld.com> To: <ENG-HAMPSHIRE-KINGSCLERE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:32 PM Subject: Coomb Hole (Kingsclere ?) > Just a quick query!! > > Whilst checking on Miles baptisms I found a couple of entries > where abode of parents is given as COOMB HOLE, does anyone know > where this might be. > > -- > John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. > using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >