omery

This expression figuratively extends the Middle English meaning of swath; ` a row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe. 'to go haywire Anyone who has ever tried to use haywire to bind bales or to make repairs knows how inefficient and omery the stuff is.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 2 1984

David Lloyd, of VVelch-Poole in the County of Monts: omery, Gentleman, and Owen Tudor, of the iame Place, Gentleman, feverally make Oath, and iirft the faid David Lloyd for himfelf faith, that

The solicitor's guide to the practice of the Office of pleas in His Majesty's Court of exchequer, at Westminster; in which are introduced bills of costs in various cases, and a variety of useful precedents, with a compleat index to the whole Edmunds, Richard 1794

"He's too omery to die, and determined to find a cure for this plague.

Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986