1 ÞÖMB
f., gen. þambar, [cp. þamba, þembi-; akin to þenja (?); cp. Lat. tum-or, tum-idus]:—the womb, guts, but with the notion of being blown-up; ok aum í vömb varð heldr til þörnb, Bjarn. (in a verse), where þömb seems to be a noun, not an adjective.
2 ÞÖMB
2. metaph. a bow-string, being made of guts, like harp-strings; hence þambar-skelfir or -skelmir, the ‘string-shaker,’ the soubriquet of the famous archer Einar, Fms.; Þambar-vellir, -dalr, local names, Korm.
3 ÞÖMB
II. a nickname; Jósteinn þömb, Fms. ix. 260; Þórir Þömb, Grett.