Heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Leviticus 27:16; Numbers 11:32) = a COR. (see OMER.)

"Half a homer," a grain measure mentioned only in Hosea 3:2.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

2. (n.) See Hoemother.

3. (n.) A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts.