HOMER
What does "HOMER" mean?
In baseball, a home run; a hit that lets the batter circle all bases and score.
Meanings
- A home run in baseball. He crushed a homer into the upper deck to win the game. informal
- A homing pigeon. The fancier released his best homer for the long race. informal
- An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, equal to about ten ephahs. The harvest was measured out by the homer in the old law. archaic
Did you know?
- Before it meant a home run, a 'homer' was a unit in the Hebrew Bible - literally a 'donkey-load', the amount of grain one ass could carry, about 220 liters.
Word origin
As 'home run', a 19th-century baseball coinage from 'home' (the plate) + the agentive '-er'. The biblical unit comes from Hebrew 'homer', literally a heap or a donkey-load.
Remember it
HOMER: a batter sends the ball HOME, then it's E-R - 'every run' counts. The slugger rounds back to where he started.
A little poem
The crack, and the whole crowd lifts its eyes-
the ball, a small moon, refusing to fall,
and the slow walk home past third, past surprise.
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Wordplay
- The pigeon fancier and the slugger both bragged about their homer - one came back, and one never did.
What it teaches
The biggest swings only score if you remember to touch every base on the way home.
Quick facts
What does HOMER mean?
In baseball, a home run; a hit that lets the batter circle all bases and score.
Is HOMER a valid word?
Yes — HOMER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HOMER?
HOMER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does HOMER come from?
As 'home run', a 19th-century baseball coinage from 'home' (the plate) + the agentive '-er'. The biblical unit comes from Hebrew 'homer', literally a heap or a donkey-load.
What can HOMER teach us?
The biggest swings only score if you remember to touch every base on the way home.
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