traditional name of the supposed author of theIliad and the Odyssey
from Latin Homerus, from Greek Homeros
identical to Greek homeros: “a hostage”
said to also mean in dialects “blind”
(the connecting notion is “going with a companion”).
short for home run, from 1868
also meant “pigeon trained to fly home from a distance” (1880)
as a verb in the baseball sense by 1946
