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Brewer's: Hammel
(Scotch). A cattle-shed, a hovel. (Hame = home, with a diminutive affix. Anglo-Saxon, ham, home. Compare hamlet.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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