/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Somagia (singular somagium)
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Horse-loads. Italian, soma, a burden; somaʹro, beast of burden, an ass. (See Sumpter.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.